President Biden has said he is not confident at all that there will be a peaceful transfer of power in January 2025 if former President Donald Trump is defeated.
“He means what he says. We don’t take him seriously. He means it. All the stuff about ‘if we lose, there’ll be a bloodbath, it’ll have been a stolen election,'” Mr. Biden told CBS News chief election and campaign
correspondent Robert Costa in his first sit-down interview since announcing he was dropping out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsing Vice
President Kamala Harris for the Democratic nomination.
correspondent Robert Costa in his first sit-down interview since announcing he was dropping out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsing Vice
President Kamala Harris for the Democratic nomination.
The interview will air on CBS News Sunday Morning on Sunday, Aug. 11.
“Look what they’re trying to do now in the local election districts where people count the votes,” said Mr. Biden.
Repeating a familiar maxim about elections and democracy, the president said, “you can’t love your country only when you win.”
Trump’s bloodbath comments at an Ohio campaign rally in March caused controversy, with Biden’s campaign and other Democrats expressing alarm while Trump and his allies said he was referring to the economic fallout of
U.S. trade policy.
U.S. trade policy.
At the time, Biden campaign spokesman James Singer said it showed Trump “wants another January 6, but the American people are going to give him another electoral defeat this November because they continue to
reject his extremism, his affection for violence, and his thirst for revenge.”
reject his extremism, his affection for violence, and his thirst for revenge.”
But the Trump campaign said that was ‘spin on his words, and Trump took to social media saying the media “pretended to be shocked at my use of the word BLOODBATH, even though they fully understood that I was simply referring to imports.”
When asked during their June debate whether he would accept the outcome of the November election, Trump said he would accept the results “if
it’s a fair and legal and good election,” adding that there’s “nothing [he’d] rather do”.
it’s a fair and legal and good election,” adding that there’s “nothing [he’d] rather do”.
The former president then continued to falsely claim the “fraud and everything else was ridiculous” in the 2020 election.
“I tell you what, I doubt you’ll accept it because you’re such a whiner,” Mr. Biden responded in their only debate. “The idea if you lose again, you’re accepting anything, you can’t stand the loss, something snapped in you
when you lost the last time.”
when you lost the last time.”
