Joe Biden warns that Donald Trump will try to ‘steal’ midterm elections | Joe Biden
Joe Biden has warned that his presidential successor Donald Trump will try to “steal” the midterm elections, a rare public address for him.
Speaking in South Carolina, where he was honored for his lifelong achievements in politics, Biden claimed that the United States was experiencing “dark days” in his speech hours before the Trump administration launched an attack on Iran.
Biden repeats a line from the 2020 campaign when he defeated Trump and ended his first presidency he told the crowd “The battle for the soul of this nation is a battle that will never end,” he said Friday at the Columbia Museum of Art. He simultaneously criticized Trump’s plan to impose potentially prohibitive voting requirements ahead of the midterm elections.
“Here’s the good news,” Biden continued. “For now, power in America belongs to the people. And the way to show power is to vote, to demonstrate, to vote. And folks, when we do that, it’s bad news for Donald Trump, and he knows it.”
“So he’s trying to remove more and more barriers, to put them in. He’s trying to steal the election, because he knows he can’t win your vote, so he’s going to do whatever he can to stop you from wanting to vote.”
Biden, 83, has largely stayed away from the public eye since leaving office and receiving treatment for an aggressive form of prostate cancer. He did not address his health on Friday when he criticized Trump for his recent State of the Union address and a crackdown on immigrants in which federal agents killed U.S. citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis in January.
“Renee Good is not talking about Alex Pretti… [or] “Give even a word of comfort to their families,” Biden said.
Biden also noted that Trump “offered not a word of support or even recognition” in his speech to the victims of sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, who reportedly killed himself while in federal custody in 2019. Trump was among the many former powerful friends Epstein had.
Biden’s speech comes at a time when Trump’s approval rating is at a historic low. In early February, the Associated Press-Norc Center for Public Affairs Research found that 61% of Americans disapprove on the other hand, from its performance NPR/PBS News/Marist poll It recently emerged that most US adults think Trump is moving the country in the wrong direction.
Biden abandoned the 2024 re-election campaign after his disastrous debate performance in June of that year. He was replaced by vice president Kamala Harris, but Trump defeated her to return to the White House later in the year.
