Despite resigning in July and handing the 2024 Democratic nomination to Vice President Kamala Harris, President Joe Biden remains in office and continues to speak out about the danger Donald Trump poses to the country.
“CBS Sunday Morning” is scheduled to air a lengthy interview with Biden this weekend, but the network released a key snippet from the interview on Wednesday. The president issued a clear warning: Trump will not accept defeat in this election, and the results could be violent.
Asked whether he was “confident” there would be a peaceful transfer of power in January, Biden was blunt.
“If Trump loses, I have no confidence at all,” he said. “He means what he says. We don’t take him seriously. He means it.”
Biden reminded viewers of the ominous things Trump has said during the ongoing campaign.
“All this talk about if we lose there’s going to be a bloodbath, a stolen election,” he said. “Look at what they’re trying to do now in the local precincts where people are counting votes.” Trump I boasted Regarding the MAGA takeover of the Georgia Election Commission, Dozens Some of those who are rigging the 2020 election are employed in key state election offices.
Message from the President to President Trump:
“You can’t love your country just because you won.”
Biden We started a campaign Because he wanted to save democracy from Trump and the invading MAGA forces in 2019. The first two words he said were announce his candidacy: “Charlottesville, Virginia.” He was referring to the white supremacist protests there in August 2017. A counter-protester diedTrump’s declaration that there were “very fine people on both sides” of the march was a deciding factor for Biden.
“With those words, the president of the United States created moral equivalence between those who spread hate and those who have the courage to stand up to it,” Biden said in his announcement. “And in that moment, I knew that the threat to this country was unlike anything I’ve ever seen in my life.”
After Trump refused to accept the 2020 election results, he was proven right. plot a scheme Submissions to overturn results in key states Lawsuits are filed one after another in the courtsAnd finally incite violent rebellion January 6, 2021, a desperate attempt to block Congress from certifying the election.
The repetition of January 6th is weighing on Biden’s mind and the public’s mind. New research from AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research It found that most Americans view the election as “very important” or “extremely important” to democracy. Concerns were particularly high among Democrats, with more than half of those surveyed saying the election was “extremely important” to the future of American democracy.
most recently Civiqs Survey Daily Kos echoes that concern. When asked, “What concerns you most about a second term as President Donald Trump?” 39% cited “the impact on American democracy.” Abortion was the next most concerning issue for voters, but only 8% cited it as their top concern.
So it’s important for Biden to continue to remind voters what’s at stake. And his Support rate rebound His message could be especially effective since he’s retired from competition.
This would be an effective one-two punch to save democracy: Harris could run a vibrant, forward-looking campaign, and Biden could back her up and continue the work he started when he first took on Trump.
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