President Joe Biden on Friday expressed uncertainty about whether the 2024 election in November will be peaceful due to rhetoric from Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, that cast doubt on the 2020 election results.
"Do you have confidence that it will be a free and fair election and that it will be peaceful?" a reporter asked the president during the White House press briefing.
"I'm confident it will be free and fair," Biden responded. "I don't know whether it will be peaceful."
"The things that Trump has said — and the things that he said last time out, when he didn't like the outcome of the election — were very dangerous," the president continued.
So far in the campaign season, the former president has escalated his rhetoric to cast doubt on the integrity of the 2024 election prior to Election Day. On Truth Social, Trump threatened to jail election officials, lawyers, and others for election fraud should he win.
"I noticed that the vice presidential Republican candidate did not say he'd accept the outcome of the election, and haven't even accepted the outcome of the last election," Biden said.
During the vice presidential debate Tuesday, JD Vance refused to answer whether Trump lost the 2020 election and if he'd contest the results of the 2024 election.
"So, I'm concerned about what they're going to do," the president said.
