In his first interview since ending his re-election bid, President Biden expressed doubt Wednesday that there would be a peaceful transfer of power if former President Donald Trump loses the 2024 election.
“If Trump wins, no, I’m not confident at all,” the 81-year-old president told “CBS News Sunday Morning” before quickly catching himself.
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“He means what he says. We don’t take him seriously,” the president said of the Republican nominee. “All the stuff about if we lose, there’ll be a bloodbath, it’s a stolen – look what they’re trying to do now in the local election districts where people count the votes, putting people in place in states where they’re going to count the votes.”
“You can’t love your country, only when you win,” Biden argued.
During a March campaign rally in Ohio, Trump, 78, predicted a “bloodbath” in the auto industry if he doesn’t win the November election.
However, the line drew biting headlines casting Trump’s rhetoric as a warning of a literal “bloodbath” if he loses the race.
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“He 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.”
Trump was directly asked in his June debate with Biden if he would accept the results of the November election, to which he responded that he would “if it’s a fair and legal and good election.”
“I tell you what, I doubt you’ll accept it because you’re such a whiner,” Biden shot back at the debate. “The idea if you lose again, you accepting anything, you can’t stand the loss, something snapped in you when you lost the last time.”
Biden withdrew from the race a little over a month after his disastrous June 20 debate against Trump.
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Harris, 59, has not given any interviews or done any press conferences since taking over for Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket.
This is a developing story. Please check back for more updates.
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