Biden has officially landed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he will shortly join former president Barack Obama at a rally in support for gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro. He will be speaking at 17:00 ET (21:00 GMT).
Meanwhile, supporters of Donald Trump await his arrival at a rally scheduled later in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Trump will be there in support of Republican senatorial candidate Mehmet Oz, and is expected to speak at 19:00 ET.
The 2022 midterms will be the first federal elections since the 6 January attack on the US Capitol, when Trump supporters tried to stop Joe Biden’s election victory from being certified.
Far from being chastened by the riot, Trump has continued to question the results of that election and has actively supported Republican candidates who say a Trump win was stolen from them.
Many of these candidates, like secretary of state nominees Mark Finchem in Arizona and Jim Marchant in Nevada and governor candidate Doug Mastriano in Pennsylvania, are running for offices where they will have at least some control over their state’s electoral systems heading into the 2024 presidential contest.
These politicians, if elected, could refuse to certify their state’s election results in a close election.
They could also join lawsuits against localities based on allegations of electoral corruption, or enact new rules and regulations curtailing certain methods of voting, such as by mail or through ballot drop boxes.
In 2020, under pressure from Trump to reverse some of the results, Republican officeholders in multiple states refused to bow to his demands.
Two years from now, if a similarly contested election takes place, the outcome of these kinds of challenges could be quite different.
Source-BBC
