President Biden says he’s “not confident at all” about peaceful transfer of power if Trump loses his re-election campaign.
In an interview with CBS News set to air in full this weekend, President Biden expressed deep concerns that his predecessor won’t leave after a 2024 loss. This was his first interview since dropping out of the 2024 presidential contest.
Biden was blunt when asked about the chance of a peaceful turnover given what transpired on Capitol Hill January 6, 2020.
“He means what he says. We don’t take him seriously. He means it. All this stuff about if we lose, there’ll be a bloodbath,” Biden said. “Look what they’re trying to do now. In the local election districts where people count the votes… they’re putting people in place in states where they’re gonna count the votes, right? You can’t love your country only when you win.”
The “bloodbath” allusion is a nod to recent remarks by Trump comparing the potential consequences of allowing Democratic programs continued sway over the auto industry, remarking we would see an economic “bloodbath in this country.”
It marked Biden’s first public appearance since he said more than two weeks ago that he will not run for reelection in 2024. It has since overshadowed any other political debate in the promotion of Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic Party nominee. Harris has remained off the public stage since emerging as her party’s nominee.
Harris announced on Tuesday that she will run with Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. Trump will face Harris-Walz in the November election, with VP selection of Ohio Senator JD Vance.
