Photo: Brendan Smialowski Agence France-Presse “If he wins […] this election […] It’s dangerous. He is a real danger to America’s security,” said outgoing US President Joe Biden.
Nicolas Revise – Agence France-Presse in Washington
Posted at 12:04 p.m. Updated at 12:31 p.m.
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Donald Trump is a “real danger” to the United States, Joe Biden said in an interview broadcast Sunday, the first since he gave up on a second term, with the president pledging to do everything he can to ensure that his vice-president Kamala Harris succeeds him.
“If he wins… this election… it's dangerous. He's a real danger to the security of America,” the 81-year-old Democratic leader, who was replaced at short notice by Ms. Harris as the Democratic Party's candidate, told CBS News.
“We're at a turning point. We are really there […] and democracy is the key element,” Mr. Biden added in this interview recorded several days ago at the White House and in which he appears in better shape than during his disastrous debate on June 27 live on CNN against Donald Trump, the former Republican president (2017-2021) who is 78 years old and is running again.
“I was really, really having a bad day during this debate because I was sick, but I don’t have any serious problems,” he assured the CBS journalist who asked him about his health.
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But Joe Biden has half-heartedly acknowledged that his age weighed heavily in his decision to withdraw from the campaign to make way for a 59-year-old woman.
“I can barely say how old I am […] I have trouble getting it out of my mouth,” admitted the octogenarian, who increasingly searches for words and whose weak, hoarse voice is sometimes difficult to understand.
It was three weeks after this calamitous televised debate with Mr. Trump, a tradition in presidential campaigns in the United States, that Mr. Biden announced on July 21 that he was giving up running in the November 5 election.
Ms. Harris, who immediately returned to the race, is assured of being nominated by the Democratic Party convention in Chicago from August 19 to 22, with her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.
Joe Biden also explained that Democratic representatives in Congress had expressed serious fears about their chances of being re-elected in the legislative by-elections which will also be held on November 5.
“A number of my Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate thought I was going to hurt them,” he said.
“Obligation to the country”
“The crucial question remains for me — and this is not a joke — to preserve the democracy”, hammered this veteran of politics for half a century. He ran in 2020 against then-President Donald Trump precisely because democracy was, according to him, “at stake,” he recalled.
The Republican camp regularly criticizes these accusations by Democrats against Donald Trump. The latter promised this week a “peaceful transfer” of power after the election, while his departure from the White House took place in the chaos of the storming of the Capitol by his supporters in January 2021.
“I have an obligation to the country to do the most important thing in our power: we must, we must beat Trump,” Joe Biden hammered home, promising to campaign with the Harris/Walz Democratic “ticket” which benefits from momentum within the Party and Democratic voters.
New polls published Saturday show Kamala Harris winning against Donald Trump in three key states that could decide the fate of the election, reversing the trend of recent months, at a time when the Republican campaign is in full swing. the wing.
Donald Trump's running mate, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance, interviewed Sunday by three television networks, attacked Kamala Harris, who he said was responsible for the Biden administration's record, because she was the one “in charge.”