US President Joe Biden said in an interview published on Monday that his Republican rival Donald Trump would “challenge” the results of November's presidential election if he loses.
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“I think he will do whatever it takes to win. If I win – if I win – I think he will challenge the result,” the 81-year-old Democrat said during a January interview with a reporter from the weekly New Yorker.
“I'm the only one who ever beat him. And I will beat him again,” Joe Biden said again.
“If you believed that you were best suited to defeat someone who, if he won, would change the nature of America, what would you do?” asked the Democrat, who had always believed he was the best possible candidate against Donald Trump.
However, the American president is unpopular, his age is a major concern among voters, and several recent polls give his Republican predecessor an advantage in voting intentions.
However, Joe Biden is counting on the central message of his election campaign, the defense of democracy and civil peace, to be carried in the end.
“In a democracy, how can we elect someone president who says violence is acceptable?” he said in the New Yorker interview.
The president also criticizes the attitude of the press, which he says does not recognize the authoritarian threat posed by Donald Trump, the big favorite in the Republican primaries.
“It’s like you’ve all gone deaf,” he accused.