Biden says he doesn’t know if US election will be peaceful

President Joe Biden fears the US election will not be “peaceful” following comments by Republican candidate Donald Trump , who further heated up the campaign by saying Israel should “hit” Iran’s nuclear facilities.

With one month to go until the presidential election, tensions are mounting.

” I’m confident they’ll be free and fair ” but ” I don’t know if they’ll be peaceful ,” Biden said Friday. “The things Trump said and the things he said last time when he didn’t like the outcome of the election were very dangerous,” he warned.

“So I’m concerned about what they’re going to do,” he told reporters at the White House.

‘Rhetoric’

The November 5 election between Vice President Kamala Harris, a Democrat, and former President Trump promises to be close and has Americans on edge.

Polling stations in the most hotly contested counties have been turned into fortresses, protected by wrought-iron fences and metal detectors.

If the result is as close as believed, it could take days, not hours, to know the name of the winner.

Trump has never acknowledged his defeat in 2020 and at his rallies he has repeatedly accused Democrats of “cheating.”

The Republican candidate also blamed the second assassination attempt on him on the “rhetoric” of his opponents.

Democrats accuse him of being the instigator of a sometimes stifling political climate .

Trump returns to Butler

On Saturday, the 78-year-old Republican will return to the scene of the first assassination attempt in which he was wounded in the ear by bullets fired by a man from a rooftop during a rally. It was in Butler, Pennsylvania.

He will hold another rally in the town. His campaign team has announced a distinguished guest: Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and owner of the social network X, Tesla and SpaceX.

Trump had earlier stopped in Georgia on Friday, a southeastern state hit by Hurricane Helene, which left more than 200 people dead in the United States.

He said the White House’s handling of the crisis was “terrible” and did not miss an opportunity to attack illegal immigration. Money from the public coffers “has gone to people who entered the country illegally,” he said, without evidence.

Hours later, at a rally with supporters in North Carolina, he criticized Biden for saying Wednesday that he opposes an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, a day after Iran launched nearly 200 missiles at Israel.

“What do you think about Iran? Would you attack Iran? And he says, ‘As long as they don’t attack the nuclear material. That’s what you want to attack, right?’ I said, ‘I think he got that wrong… Isn’t that what you’re supposed to attack?'” Trump said.

“When asked that question, the answer should have been to hit the nuclear first, and worry about the rest later,” the billionaire added.

Harris on the charge

Kamala Harris held a rally in Flint, Michigan, a key state in the Great Lakes region and a symbol of America’s industrial decline.

“We will invest in the industries that built America, like steel, iron and the great American auto industry” so that “it is America, not China, that wins the competition of the 21st century,” he said.

“Donald Trump makes big promises and always breaks them,” he said of his rival, whom he described as “a man who is not serious.”

The Democratic candidate began her trip in the big city of Detroit, the cradle of the country’s automotive sector, where she wants to reinforce her image as a pro-union candidate.

Workers used to lean Democratic, but Trump has won over many of them since entering politics in 2015.

In an attempt to stem this exodus of votes, Harris will have the support of Barack Obama.

Still very popular, the first black president in US history will visit several key states on the eve of the November vote, the vice president’s campaign team announced on Friday.

On Friday, the Democrat met with leaders of the Arab and Muslim communities, many of whose members are angry at Joe Biden’s unwavering support for Israel.