WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden says his chief worry is that President Donald Trump will attempt to “steal” the November election, and the Democratic challenger says he’s even considered the possibility that the Republican incumbent would refuse to leave the White House should he lose.
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“My single greatest concern: This president’s going to try and steal this election,” Biden said on “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah,” which aired Wednesday night. “This is a guy who said all mail-in ballots are fraudulent, voting by mail, while he sits behind the desk in the Oval Office and writes his mail-in ballot to vote in the primary.”
Biden was asked whether he’s considered what would happen if Trump refused to vacate the White House in the event he wasn’t reelected. “I have,” Biden said, before suggesting that the military could step in to ensure a peaceful transition of power.
““I am absolutely convinced they will escort him from the White House with great dispatch,” the former vice president said.
Biden’s comments come as Trump has intensified his claim that absentee voting, which many states are expanding to avoid large crowds at polling places during the coronavirus pandemic, increases the possibility of fraud. There is little evidence to support that assertion; Trump himself has voted by mail in the past.
A chaotic Tuesday primary in Georgia, where there were problems with voting machines and long lines, may foreshadow a messy November election.
Trump on Thursday planned to resume in-person fundraising events after a three-month hiatus as his campaign tries to maintain a steep cash advantage over Biden. The president was traveling to Dallas to raise more than $10 million for his campaign and the Republican Party. He scheduled another event Saturday at his New Jersey golf course.
Biden has previously suggested that Trump’s opposition to mail-in ballots could upend the presidential election. “This president, mark my words, I think he’s going to try to kick back the election somehow, come up with a rationale why it can’t be held,” he said during an April fundraiser.
“He’s already trying to undermine the election with false claims of voter fraud and threatening to block essential COVID assistance if any extra funds go to the U.S. Postal Service,” Biden said at the time. “What in God’s name was that about other than trying to let the word out that he’s going to do all that he can to make it very hard for people to vote.”
During the “Daily Show” interview, Biden said that more than 20 states had passed 80-plus pieces of legislation “making it harder for people vote.” He said his campaign was assembling a team of lawyers to observe balloting in “every district in the country.”
Also Wednesday, Biden acknowledged during a virtual NAACP forum that questions raised about his support for the 1994 crime bill are “legitimate.” Biden helped write the tough-on-crime bill when he was a Delaware senator. Critics say it contributed to the mass incarceration of racial minorities.
Black voters remain key to Democrats’ chances in the general election. Biden has engaged in a concerted outreach effort to the African American community, and he has released a plan focused on black economic mobility and racial disparities in health care and education systems.
“Watch what I do,” he said during the forum. “Judge me based on what I do, what I say and to whom I say it.”
Biden worries about Trump stealing election, lying hypocrite dem-o-rats are the one who steal and cheat elections.
Dem are all evil.
Biden is such an imbicle. How he came to be our nominee is beyond me. Beto O’Rourke and Pete Buttgeig are a thousand times more intelligent than this dummy. Even Hillary, at this late stage, has more intelligence than this fumbling bafoon. Unless there is some cue in the making, I’ll be staying home this election day.
I wasn’t a big Trump fan to begin with. But seeing how dangerous the Democratic party has become especial for Orthodox Jews i see no other option and it has to be Trump.
who else can report such a nonsense other than AP
His handlers put this out for him.
Watch what you say, geniuses. The American people are fed up with your lunacy that’s being forced on us.
You’re stepping on eggshells. They’ll be a reaction and it won’t be pretty. Americans are not going to take your fascism sitting down much longer..
Careful.
This is what fake Alzheimer’s looks like.
It will never happen because senile Joe will never win.
Now now let’s discuss some history .
In the 2016 elections , trump was asked if you lose will you concede the elections to Hillary? And the media was all over him. He and I asked will Hilary concede if she loses? Everyone laughed
Fast forward a bit, Hillary never fully conceded . We said it was Russian collusion , comey fault and misogyny etc … Trump stole the election was the cry .
So now whose the crazy one ?
Trump ought to point this out and attack the fake news trying to portray him as the evil tough one
Sorry, oh educated one, but Hillary conceded the night of the election. She did not challenge any of the results in any state (as opposed to Al Gore in 2000 with Florida). She accepted the results. She may have laid the blame for her loss on thick, but that is another matter. When we talk about conceding, if Donald Trump loses, will he concede victory? Will he work for a transition to a new administration? Will he vacate the White House when the time comes? He can scream and shout about the election afterwards, as Hillary and others have done (whether or not for good reason I leave you to come to your own conclusions). But if the Democrats win, will he accept that result and vacate his office? Many fear not.
Lawrence___
You have a short memory.
Hillary pursuantly announced and agreed with other deranged dems that Trump was an illegitimate president.
A click away, unless lib Google deleted it.
To this day, the democrats STILL have not conceded. They still think Trump is in the White House illegally.
If, G-d willing, Trump wins again, they will not act any different.
They can’t accept that they lost.
How about AFTER concession speech ??
She said it was an illegitimate election.
Sept. 26, 2019.
HILLARY CLINTON CALLS PRESIDENT TRUMP AN ILLEGITIMATE PRESIDENT…!!!!!
GOOGLE IT…A CLICK AWAY.
In truth both Russia and China interfered and tried to manipulate the 2016 election in Hilary’s favor . Hilary should be punished not Trump !!!
June 2019
Jimmy Carter calls Trump an illegitimate president.
Hillary is a liar and criminal.
Her concession speech was phony.
She only conceded after she sobered up from her rampage.
What world you live on ?
Dementia Joe an incoherent deranged fool