Harris criticized Trump for suggesting there will be no more elections

The campaign of the vice president and virtual Democratic candidate, Kamala Harriscriticized the Republican candidate, Donald Trumpfor the statements he made on Friday in Florida, when He told his supporters that if they elect him in the 2024 elections, “they will not have to vote again.”

Harris’ team said in a statement that Trump’s words effectively amounted to “a promise to end democracy.”

“When Vice President Harris says that this election is about freedom, she means it. Our democracy is under attack by the criminal Donald Trump: After the last election, he sent a mob to overturn the election results,” Harris’ campaign statement reads, alluding to the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

On that day, Trump supporters stormed the Capitol as the results of the 2020 election, in which the current president, Democrat Joe Biden, defeated Trump, were scheduled to be certified. Five people died in that incident, including a police officer, while four officers later committed suicide.

At a rally in Florida on Friday, Trump told the crowd, most of whom were Christian, that “if you vote for him this November, in four years you won’t have to vote again. We’ll have it so well fixed that you won’t have to vote,” he said.

It is unclear what the former president meant by his comments, which come during an election campaign in which both Biden and Harris have accused him of being a threat to democracy.

The Harris campaign, in its statement released on X, alluded to the statements that Trump has made in recent months questioning his respect for American democracy.

For example, in an interview with Fox News in December, Trump said that if he won the November 5 election he would be a dictator, but only on “day one,” in order to close the southern border with Mexico and increase oil exploitation.

Also in May, during a National Rifle Association event, Trump alluded to the possibility of serving more than two terms as president and mentioned Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945), the only one who has served as President for more than two terms.

If Trump is successful in seeking a second term, He will only be able to serve as president for four more years.The U.S. Constitution provides that presidents can only serve two terms, regardless of whether they are consecutive.

That amendment to the Constitution to limit the exercise of power to two terms went into effect in 1951, after Roosevelt’s death.

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