President Biden, in a new interview, said he is not at all confident that there would be a peaceful transition of power if former President Trump lost the election in November.
Biden gave an interview to “CBS Sunday Morning” on Wednesday, his first since announcing in late July that he would not seek re-election.
“If Trump wins, no, I’m not confident at all. I mean, if Trump loses, I’m not confident at all,” Biden said in a statement. interview clipinitially speaking badly before correcting himself.
“He’s serious. We don’t take him seriously. He’s serious. This whole ‘if we lose, it’s going to be a bloodbath’ thing,” Biden continued, referring to comments Trump made in March that he and His allies insisted they were about the economy.
Biden also argued that Republicans were placing officials in local jurisdictions to oversee vote counting, suggesting this was setting the stage for a contentious election.
“You can’t just love your country when you win,” Biden said.
Trump refused to accept the results of the 2020 election when he lost to Biden, insisting in the weeks following the vote that they were rigged, fraudulent and stolen. His demands culminated in violence at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, when his supporters clashed with authorities and stormed the complex to try to stop the certification of Biden’s victory.
Trump has since been criminally charged in Washington, D.C., and Georgia for his efforts to subvert the results of the 2020 election.
At rallies during the 2024 cycle, Trump still alludes to fraud in the 2020 elections and urges his supporters to vote en masse in November to make his victory “too big to rig.”
Biden’s comments come as Democrats unite behind Vice President Harris as the party’s new nominee to replace Biden. Polls showed a neck-and-neck race between Harris and Trump about three months before Election Day.
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