United States Elections: Trump denounces “large-scale cheating” and fears one more

Donald Trump took advantage of the irregularities confirmed by the authorities to affirm that “cheating” has been done in the US presidential elections, suggesting that he could refuse to recognize his defeat if he loses, as happened in 2020.

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The Republican candidate systematically refuses to commit to recognizing the results of the elections.

This Wednesday, October 30, denounced “cheating” on a “scale never seen before” in Pennsylvaniaone of the key states that will decide the result of next Tuesday’s elections.

He stated on social networks that, on the eve of the elections, “very ugly things” are happening in this state and asked the Police to do “their job, without delay.”

On Friday, judicial authorities in a Pennsylvania county announced the opening of an investigation into a batch of 2,500 voter registration applications that contained incorrect identity information.

Verifications are being carried out in other counties, according to the local press.

Trump, tied with Vice President Kamala Harris in the polls, wants to “use his usual strategy, where he creates chaos and stokes divisions and fear,” Josh Shapiro, the Democratic governor of Pennsylvania, accused Tuesday in statements on CNN.

The former president lost this state by just 80,000 votes to Joe Biden in 2020.

On January 6, 2021, Trump supporters enraged by his accusations of fraud stormed the Capitol to try to prevent the certification of Joe Biden’s victory.

The case of electoral fraud that Trump does not talk about: that of his collaborator Giuliani

In a campaign still plagued by allegations without evidence of electoral fraud in 2020 by the Democrats, the former president and Republican candidate, Donald Trump, however, does not allude to the trial that his former lawyer Rudy Giuliani will face in Arizona for the manipulation of results in that election.

A total of 16 people, including Giuliani and also Trump’s White House chief of staff Mark Meadows are accused of falsifying documents and conspiring to manipulate the 2020 election results. in which Trump was defeated by the current president, Democrat Joe Biden.

However, Trump and many of his allies, such as Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake, continue to fuel the 2020 fraud theory and also cast doubt on next Tuesday’s results.

Each of the 16 defendants faces charges of fraud, forgery and conspiracy to manipulate the outcome of the 2020 election.

Two of them, voter Loraine Pellegrino and Jenna Ellis, who was a lawyer for the Trump campaign and worked closely with Giuliani, accepted plea deals.

Ellis has also announced that he will cooperate with prosecutors in exchange for charges against him in the false voters case being dropped.

The other defendants are members of the Republican Party who were in charge of certifying 10 of the 11 electoral votes provided by the state. They face charges of signing false documents claiming that Trump “legitimately” won and Biden lost.

“It is ironic to hear over and over again about electoral fraud by Republicans, while they themselves are the ones facing trial in Arizona and other states for trying to manipulate and lie about the result of the 2020 elections,” Alfredo told EFE. Gutiérrez, who was an Arizona state senator for fourteen years.

Gutiérrez, one of the greatest Latino leaders in Arizona, describes the fact as “hypocrisy” and is concerned that voters do not believe what is happening in court and do believe the false accusations of electoral fraud.

Arizona is just one of five states where criminal charges have been brought against Trump supporters for trying to manipulate the electoral system and overturn the result.

In this state, Lake, one of the main allies and promoters of “the big lie”, insists without evidence that there was electoral fraud by Biden, who also took Arizona, a traditionally Republican state, from Trump.

The Trumpist denounces that there was also fraud in the 2022 elections in which she lost to Democrat Katie Hobbs when she presented her candidacy for the Republican Party for governor.

This week a Colorado man, Teak Ty Brockbank, pleaded guilty to threatening in 2021 to kill Democratic election officials in several states, including Hobbs, when the current governor of Arizona was that state’s Secretary of State.

Gutiérrez considers that Trump and Lake are using the issue of alleged “voter fraud” to manipulate voters.

During one of his presentations, Lake told his followers that the “only way for Trump to lose the presidential election is for there to be voter fraud again in Arizona.”

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