Will there be violence again?
Biden warns: Trump would not accept defeat
May 9, 2024, 8:08 a.m
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Donald Trump has not yet admitted that he lost the 2020 US presidential election. Joe Biden expects that this will not change even if he loses the election in November. The incumbent appeals to voters to listen carefully to his opponent.
US President Joe Biden expects that his Republican rival Donald Trump will again doubt the result of the presidential election in November if he loses. Trump will not accept the outcome of the election, “I promise you, he won’t,” said Biden in an interview on CNN. This is dangerous, warned the Democrat, who wants to run for a second term in office.
Former President Trump wants to challenge Biden in the fall vote. Both have already secured the necessary number of delegates in their parties’ internal primaries for the nomination party conferences in the summer, where they will be officially named presidential candidates.
Biden warned against Trump. He promises retaliation and has announced that he will prosecute his opponents if he is re-elected. “What president has ever said something like that?” Biden complained and appealed to voters: “Listen to what he says.”
Trump lost the 2020 presidential election to Biden, but to this day refuses to admit his defeat. Instead, he steadfastly and unfoundedly spreads claims that he was deprived of a victory by massive voter fraud. Trump’s campaign against the election result culminated in an unprecedented outbreak of violence: on January 6, 2021, Trump supporters stormed the parliament building in the capital Washington, where Biden’s election victory was supposed to be formally confirmed at that time. As a result of the riots, five people died. Trump had previously incited his supporters during a speech with his election fraud claims.
With a view to the new race between Biden and Trump, there are fears that chaos could break out again. Trump himself recently sparked a fire in an interview by saying that violence in the USA is conceivable again this time if the election is not “fair”. When asked whether things would remain peaceful if Biden lost, Trump told Time Magazine: “I think we’ll win. And if we don’t win, that’s what matters. It always comes down to the fairness of one person Choice.”