Democratic elected officials and party insiders for weeks pressured President Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential
President Joe Biden disembarks Air Force One as he arrives Andrews Air Force Base, Md., July 23, 2024. Biden returned to the White House from his Rehoboth Beach home where he was recovering from COVID-19. A coup d’etat is a French term that means the overthrow of a government, usually by illegal means and with the threat of violence.
"So, the people who have been lecturing us about democracy just orchestrated a coup against the President of the United States of America," a July 21 But it doesn’t meet the definition of a coup, experts said. That’s because Biden remains president until his term expires on Jan. 20, and he wasn’t removed from the ballot by threat of violence or illegality. Replacing Biden on the ballot
The project’s codebook lists five criteria to meet the definition of a coup, Cline Center Director Scott Althaus told PolitiFact in an email. Among them is"irregular means." The codebook said that means that initiators must use irregular means — typically by the threat or use of coercion or force — to remove someone from power.
Cleary said journalists and partisans on both sides are guilty of misusing the term"coup" and exaggerating each other’s actions, such as"attacks on democracy" and"existential threats." Email interview, Scott Althaus, director of Cline Center for Advanced Social Research and political science professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, July 22, 2024
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