Russia stated on Wednesday that the upheaval surrounding the U.S. election, together with an assassination try towards Donald Trump and the exit of President Joe Biden from the race, confirmed the divisions in an American society at risk of “falling right into a nosedive”.
Former president Trump, the Republican candidate, was shot within the ear at a marketing campaign rally on July 13, whereas Biden deserted his reelection bid on Sunday and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris because the Democratic occasion’s candidate.
Requested straight by Reuters who she would favor as U.S. president, Russian Overseas Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova didn’t specific a transparent desire.
“America is now in a scenario the place they … want to get via the present yr with out falling right into a nosedive,” Zakharova stated.
Zakharova stated that there was proof of “deep divisions in American society” and “civil battle” however that the US nonetheless considered Russia as an existential enemy. The protagonists of “American electoral theatre” ought to subsequently be considered with out illusions, she added.
By Wednesday morning, President Vladimir Putin had but to remark in public on Biden’s exit from the race.
Putin has steered a number of instances previously that, for Russia, Biden is preferable to Trump.
U.S. intelligence has indicated, nevertheless, that Russia would favor a Trump victory, and former U.S. intelligence assessments have discovered that Moscow tried via affect campaigns to assist Trump win in 2016, towards Hillary Clinton, and in 2020 towards Biden.
Russia has denied that it sought to meddle within the elections, although Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin repeatedly stated earlier than his demise final yr that he did intervene within the 2016 election.
Zakharova stated: “Blaming Russia for its personal troubles, miscalculations, issues, errors, and shortcomings, it appears to me, is a manifestation of the illness of American democracy,”
“We don’t intervene within the inside affairs of sovereign states, a lot much less exert affect, and don’t mannequin or exert stress on electoral processes. The upcoming elections in the US aren’t any exception, we have now by no means interfered in them beforehand.”
