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The election campaign of the US Vice President and the virtual candidate of the Democratic Party, Kamala Harris, This Saturday, he attacked his Republican rival Donald Trump for statements he made to his followers on Friday night, suggesting that If they choose him, “they won’t have to vote again.”

In a statement, Harris’ team said Trump’s words meant, in practice, “a promise to end democracy.”

“When Vice President Harris says we are risking freedom in this electionhe means it“Our democracy is under attack by the criminal Donald Trump, who sent a mob to overturn the election after the last election,” Harris’ campaign said in a statement, referring to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

That day, Trump supporters stormed the Capitol as it was about to certify the results of the 2020 election, in which incumbent President Joe Biden, a Democrat, defeated Trump. In this case, five people diedincluding a police officer, and four officers later committed suicide.

At a rally in Florida on Saturday night, Trump addressed the crowd, most of whom were Christian, and told them that if they vote for him this November, “In four years they won’t have to vote anymore”“We’ll fix it so well that you won’t have to vote,” he said.

It’s unclear what the former president meant in his comments, made during the campaign, in which both Biden and Harris accused him of being threat to democracy.

Harris’ campaign, in a statement published on X, cited statements made by Trump in recent months. question their respect for democracy United States.

For example, in an interview with the magazine Fox News Last December, Trump assured that if he wins the November 5 election, he will become a dictator, but only on the “first day,” so that close the border with Mexico and increase oil production.

Additionally, in May, during an NRA event, Trump mentioned possibility of exercising more than two mandates as president and mentioned Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945), the only one to serve more than two terms as president.

If Trump wins a second term, he will only be able to serve another four years as president. The United States Constitution states that presidents They can only hold this position for two periods. regardless of whether they are consistent or not.