President Joe Biden said Friday that he was confident the November election would be “free and fair” but expressed concern that it might not be “peaceful.”
During a surprise appearance at a White House press briefing, a reporter asked Biden if he thought the election would be free and fair and peaceful. Biden responded: “I’m sure it’s going to be free and fair. I don’t know if it’s going to be peaceful.
“Those things [former President Donald] The words that Trump said and said last time when he did not like the result of the election were very dangerous,” the president added.
Biden added that he’s “concerned about what they’re going to do,” referring to comments made by Trump’s running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, in Tuesday’s vice presidential debate. dodged the question On whether Biden will win the 2020 presidential election.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, running mate of Vice President Kamala Harris, asked Vance: [Trump] Losing the 2020 election?”
“Tim, I’m focused on the future,” Vance replied.
In response, Walz called Vance’s comments “damn irresponsible.”
“I was quite shocked by this. He lost the election. It’s not a debate, it’s nowhere but in Donald Trump’s world,” Waltz added.
On Friday, Biden told reporters, referring to the stock market: “I saw that the Republican vice presidential candidate did not accept the results of the election. They did not even accept the results of the last election.”
Prosecutors on Wednesday presented a new short The federal election interference lawsuit against Trump alleges that Trump acted in a personal capacity to overturn the results after the 2020 presidential election.
Trump “resorted to crimes to stay in office” after the election, special counsel Jack Smith and his team argued in the filing.
Smith also pointed to some of Trump’s actions during the riots at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, when he knew he had lost the election but was trying to stay in office anyway.
In an interview with NewsNation on Tuesday, Trump slammed the filing, saying, “There’s nothing new here, nothing new by the way.”
During the vice presidential debate, Vance rejected Trump’s actions on Jan. 6, saying the then-president asked people to protest “peacefully” that day. He added that Trump “left the White House” a few weeks later, which he said was evidence of a peaceful process.
This is an evolving story.