Biden: I am not confident of a peaceful transfer of power if Trump loses

US President Joe Biden said that he is not confident that there will be a peaceful transfer of power after the presidential elections scheduled for November.

Biden said - in an interview with CBS News that will be broadcast on Sunday - “If Trump loses, I am not at all confident” that the transfer of power will be peaceful.

He added, "He means what he says and we do not take him seriously. He means it when he says that if we lose, there will be a bloodbath," referring to the speech of former president and Republican candidate Donald Trump.

During his campaign this year, Biden repeatedly touched on the incident of Trump supporters storming Congressional headquarters on January 6, 2021, after the Democratic candidate won the 2020 elections.

He also repeatedly mentioned Trump's literal warning of a "bloodbath" if he loses the election, noting that the Republican candidate said that his statement was in the context of talking about importing electric cars from China. However, Trump remained adamant that the 2020 elections were stolen from him.

In the interview with CBS, Biden accused the former president of seeking to have his allies assume key positions in electoral committees in American states in order to tamper with the count in the event that the scenario of the Republican candidate losing was repeated.

“Your love for the country cannot be conditional on your victory,” Biden said.

Biden has always considered his opponent a threat to American democracy.

In the context of the electoral race, Trump said that he might win New York State, which is historically known as Democratic.

Trump attacks Harris

Trump added - in a phone interview with Fox News - that Vice President Kamala Harris' decision not to choose Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, who is Jewish, to be her running mate, could cost her the votes of Jews who influence the elections in New York, according to his description.

Trump considered Harris' selection "shocking and very insulting to the Jewish people and to people who want security."

He added, "Any Jew who votes for the Democratic Party must undergo a mental examination, because the Democrats are very bad toward the Jews."

Democratic candidate for the US presidential elections, Kamala Harris, and her vice presidential candidate, Tim Walz, launched a scathing attack on Trump, in their first appearance together.

Harris said - at an election rally in which she introduced her deputy, Tim Walz - that she knows people like Donald Trump, adding that her previous work as a prosecutor enabled her to pursue different types of criminals.

In his first speech after his selection, Tim Walz, the former president and Republican candidate, accused Trump of being a man who sows division, and that his only concern is serving himself, and stressed that the upcoming elections will determine the direction in which the country will move.

(Al Jazeera + agencies)