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US President Donald Trump did not respond directly to the question of a voluntary transfer of power after the presidential election in the event of loss. Announced a “continuation”.
President of the United States, Donald Trump September 23 he refused to give an unequivocal answer to a journalist’s question about his willingness to guarantee a voluntary transfer of power in the event of defeat in the next presidential elections. This was reported by the US channel CNN.
“We have to see what happens. You know I complained a lot about the ballots. The ballots are a disaster,” Trump said, presumably referring to the ballots that will be mailed to American voters.
He expressed confidence that “there will be no transfer of power, there will be a continuation.”
Republican Senator Mitt Romney of Utah compared Trump’s response to the situation in Belarus, where Alexander Lukashenko secretly held his inauguration on September 23.
“The basis of democracy is the peaceful transfer of power, otherwise it will be like in Belarus. Any suggestion that the president does not respect this constitutional guarantee is unthinkable and unacceptable,” Romney wrote on Twitter.
The peaceful transition of power is fundamental to democracy; without that, there is Belarus. Any suggestion that a president may not respect this constitutional guarantee is unthinkable and unacceptable.
– Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) September 24, 2020
Results of a poll conducted by radio station NPR in collaboration with PBS NewsHour and Marist last week showed Trump was nine percentage points behind former US Vice President Joe Biden.
The US presidential elections are scheduled for November 2020.
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