President Joe Biden stated Wednesday that former President Donald Trump wouldn’t settle for the end result of the 2024 election.
“He might not settle for the end result of the election? I promise you he gained’t,” Biden stated in an interview on CNN, including that it was “harmful.”
Biden was responding to a query about Trump’s remarks final week in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
“If all the things’s sincere, I’ll gladly settle for the outcomes. I don’t change on that. If it’s not, you need to battle for the fitting of the nation,” Trump stated.
Biden stated about his rival Wednesday, “The man will not be a democrat with a small ‘d.'”
Biden’s marketing campaign and the White Home have beforehand responded to Trump’s assertion. And Biden has beforehand laid into Trump for election denialism, portray him as a risk to democracy. His assertion Wednesday immediately predicted how Trump would possibly behave in November.
Biden marketing campaign spokesperson James Singer stated in a press release final week about Trump’s feedback to the Journal Sentinel, “Backside line: Trump is a hazard to the Structure and a risk to our democracy.
“The American persons are going to present him one other electoral defeat this November as a result of they proceed to reject his extremism, his affection for violence, and his thirst for revenge,” Singer continued.
Individually, at a media gaggle final week, White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre denounced “harmful election denial conspiracy theories” promoted by some on the fitting.
“There is no such thing as a place for placing — placing your self above your whole nation,” Jean-Pierre stated in response to a query about Trump’s feedback. “Like President Biden has beforehand dedicated, he’ll settle for the desire of the American individuals.”
In current interviews, Trump has doubled down on questioning election outcomes. Requested in an interview Tuesday with NBC affiliate WGAL of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, whether or not he thinks he ought to have accepted the outcomes of the 2020 election, he stated, “No, it might have been a horrible factor.” He added later that if there usually are not honest and free elections, “you must all the time have the fitting to problem them.”
In an interview final month with Time journal, Trump was requested about the potential of political violence if he loses the election.
“If we don’t win, you understand, it relies upon,” he stated.
“It all the time is determined by the equity of an election. I don’t imagine they’ll have the ability to do the issues that they did the final time. I don’t suppose they’ll have the ability to get away with it,” Trump stated. “And if that’s the case, we’re gonna win in record-setting trend.”