Former Secretary of State and presidential candidate John Kerry hinted that there may be a revolution in the United States if Donald Trump wins reelection and Americans don’t believe the election results to be legitimate.
“If people don’t have adequate access to the ballot, I mean that’s the stuff on which revolutions are built,” Kerry told the Copenhagen Democracy Summit via teleconference. “If you begin to deny people the capacity of your democracy to work, even the Founding Fathers wrote in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, we have an inherent right to challenge that. And I’m worried that increasingly, people are disaffected.”
Kerry, never mentioning the Republican Party by name, said that “certain officials of a particular party purposefully [make] it difficult for the other party to vote where they control those matters.”
He blamed those actions for contributing to his defeat in the 2004 race, former VP Al Gores failed bid in 2000 and even mentioned recent elections in Georgia, apparently alluding to Stacey Abram’s defeat in the state’s 2018 governor’s race.
“We’re not meeting the standard that we ought to be meeting, so I’m deeply concerned about protecting the vote,” Kerry added.