‘I’m only three years older than Trump’

Washington. US President Joe Biden remains committed to becoming the Democratic presidential nominee. Asked whether his plans had changed in recent days, the 81-year-old answered with a decisive ‘no’ in a television interview with NBC News on Monday evening (local time).

Journalist Lester Holt also asked Biden who he listens to when it comes to this very personal decision. To which he replied: “For me.” He added: “I’m old, but only three years older than Trump.” His mental acuity is “damn good.” In three and a half years, he has “accomplished more than any other president in a long, long time.”

Asked if he was open to further debate against Trump to correct the first party’s performance, and possibly in the coming weeks, the Democrat replied: “I will debate him, as we agreed — I will debate him in the coming weeks.” September.”

Despite his recent calls for national cohesion and moderation in the election campaign, Biden has accused his political opponent Trump of inflammatory rhetoric. “He’s talking about a bloodbath if he loses,” Biden said in an interview with NBC. Trump said he wanted to suspend the sentences of all those convicted of the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol. Trump supporters violently stormed the parliament building.

Biden: I’m not the guy who won’t recognize the election results

Biden argued that Trump’s rhetoric fueled the campaign debate, not his own. “I’m not the guy who said on Day One that I was going to be a dictator. I’m not the guy who refused to accept the results of the election. “I’m not the guy who said he wasn’t going to automatically accept the results of this election,” the Democrat said, referencing statements by the former president and current Republican presidential nominee. The 81-year-old stressed that he doesn’t use such rhetoric; his opponent does.

After the assassination attempt on Trump during a campaign appearance last weekend, Biden warned against further violence and called on Americans to come together. “We resolve our differences at the ballot box. That’s how we do it — at the ballot box, not with bullets,” Biden said in a rare address to the nation from the Oval Office of the White House. The country’s political debate has become extremely heated. “It’s time to cool it down,” he warned. “We all have a responsibility to do this.”

Biden uses ‘flammable’ language

Asked what he would do to cool down the political debate in the country, Biden said in the interview that he would keep talking about the things that matter. Referring to Trump, he said that includes whether someone accepts the outcome of an election or calls immigrants “vermin.” That’s explosive language.

After the assassination of their fellow party members, Trump’s loyalists accused the sitting president of saying his rhetoric against the Republican was partly responsible for the attack. Biden regularly describes his rival as a threat to American democracy.

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