Biden predicts military will intervene if Trump
refuses to accept election loss
Biden says biggest fear is Trump will ‘try to steal
the election’
Democratic challenger leads president in opinion polls
Oliver
Milman in New York
@olliemilman
Thu 11 Jun
2020 16.30 BSTLast modified on Thu 11 Jun 2020 20.58 BST
'This president will try to steal this
election': Joe Biden issues Trump warning – video
Joe Biden
has predicted the military will escort Donald Trump from the White House should
the president lose November’s election but refuse to leave office.
Biden,
speaking to the Daily Show’s Trevor Noah, said that his single greatest concern
is that the president will “try to steal this election”.
The
Democratic presidential nominee cited Trump’s baseless linking of mail-in
ballots to voter fraud, even though he has used this method of voting himself,
and his accusations, without evidence, that Democrats are trying to rig the
election.
Before the
2016 election Trump claimed the poll was rigged against him and even after he
triumphed over Hillary Clinton he asserted, again with no evidence, that
millions of people voted illegally against him. He estimated this cohort to
consist of 3 million votes. This was the number Clinton beat him by in the
popular vote, as opposed to the electoral college system that determines who
ascends to the White House.
Biden told
Noah that he has thought about a scenario where Trump would refuse to
relinquish power after losing the election but said he was confident top
military figures would intervene. “I am absolutely convinced they will escort
him from the White House with great dispatch,” Biden said.
Trump is
trailing Biden in most opinion polls, with the president’s election campaign
demanding that CNN retract a “stunt and phony” poll that found the incumbent is
trailing his challenger by 14 points. CNN has said it stands by its poll.
On Thursday
afternoon, Tim Murtaugh, communications director for the Trump campaign, said
of Biden’s remarks: “This is just another brainless conspiracy theory from Joe
Biden as he continues to try to undermine confidence in our elections.”
He added:
“President Trump has been clear that he will accept the results of the 2020
election.”
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