Biden reveals the reasons why he abandoned the presidential race – BBC News Arabic

He said that if he had stayed in the presidential race, the contest would have continued to the last minute, and he said that several members of the House of Representatives and the Senate believed that “I will harm them in the race.”

He explained: “I was afraid that if I had stayed in the race, this problem would have become a topic of people’s conversation. Your conversations with me would be about Nancy Pelosi’s statement, and why such a person would say such a thing, and I was sure this would upset people.”

Biden believes that former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, led the campaign for Mr. Biden’s resignation, following his disappointing performance in the June 27 Trump debate.

Mr. Biden interjected several times in the taped conversation on Sunday, but was more tactful compared to the live televised debate, and attributed his poor performance to illness, and also talked about the impact of trips- long air, lack of rest, and other things. .

With increasing pressure on him, the current president announced his withdrawal from the race on July 21.

Despite what was expected, there was no internal battle in the Democratic Party to replace Biden, and the party even shifted its support directly to Kamala Harris.

Biden had said when he ran for office in 2020 that he wanted to be a bridge for future generations.

He explained: “When I ran for office for the first time, I considered myself an interim president. I can’t even remember my age. It’s hard for me to say. “

In his interview with CBS, he returned to the moment when he decided to run against Trump, when a far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, turned into deadly violence in 2017, and Trump was put under accused of promoting racism and the far right.

He said: “When members of the Ku Klux Klan went out, they wore masks so that people would not know their identity, and during his leadership, they went out without masks, because it was known they had a friend in the White House. .”

Mr. Biden reiterated his concerns about what will happen after the November election, saying he never believes there will be a peaceful transition of power if Harris wins over Trump.

He said he feared violence if Trump lost the election.

He confirmed that Trump “means what he says,” explaining: “We don’t take his words seriously, when he says that if we lose, blood will flow. ” “He is a real threat to American security.”

Trump said at a rally last March that “there will be blood flowing in the country if he loses the election,” but his campaign said he was referring to the economy and the auto industry, and that the Democrats took his words out of context.

The former president repeated his claims, without providing evidence, that he lost the elections in 2020 due to fraud, he warned that attempts at fraud were expected this year as well , and promised to pardon some or all of those convicted in the riots at Congressional headquarters in January 2021.

Biden said that he will participate in the election campaign for Kamala Harris, and that he spoke with the Governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, about visiting the state, where Biden was born in one of his cities, Scranton, which is 12 kilometers. away from New York.

Mr. Biden concluded: “I will participate in the election campaign for Kamala Harris, and I will do everything that Kamala sees that I can do to help her.”