Biden expressed his concern in an interview with CBS News, in which he made a slip-up but quickly corrected himself to specify: “I mean, if Trump loses, I’m not at all confident.”
“He is serious about what he says, we don’t take him seriously, he is serious about all that stuff about how if we lose there will be a bloodbath, it will have to be a stolen election,” the president added in his first interview since ending his re-election campaign on July 21.
In the preview of the conversation, which is due to be broadcast in full next Sunday, the current occupant of the Oval Office said that Trump was preparing to challenge the election results again in November, as he did in 2020.
“Look, what they’re trying to do now in the local precincts where people are counting the votes… they’re putting people in the states that are going to count the votes, right?” Biden said, emphasizing an idea he’s made before that “you can’t only love your country when you win.”
In March, the former leader suggested there would be a “bloodbath” if he lost the election here in less than three months, which could be a sign he would fuel political violence.
The election campaign took a turn with the entry of Vice President Kamala Harris into the Democratic race, following Biden’s resignation.
At a rally in Philadelphia the day before, the candidate announced her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, with whom she began a tour that included Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, North Carolina and Nevada the rest of the week.
On Wednesday, the Harris-Walz duo took part in mass rallies in Eau Claire, Wisconsin (where Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance also stopped), Detroit and Michigan.
The vice president managed to capitalize on the enthusiasm of the Democratic Party’s base in a short time and raised some 36 million dollars yesterday alone, after announcing Walz, having previously raised 310 million in just three days.
Harris is now leading the former president for the second week in a row in an Economist/YouGov poll.
The poll, conducted Aug. 4-6, found the Democrat ahead of the Republican by two points among registered voters, 45 percent to 43 percent.
Last week, Harris received 46 percent support to Trump’s 44 percent among registered voters in the same poll.
When she entered the presidential race, Trump claimed he could beat her more easily than Biden.
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