“We absolutely, absolutely have to defeat Trump,” Biden said in an interview on CBS Sunday Morning.
“The polls predicted it would be a close race and it would have been close until the end, but many of my Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate thought I would give them an unfair advantage in the race,” he said.
“I was worried that if I continued on the campaign trail, that it would become a talking point. I’d be interviewed about, ‘Why did Nancy Pelosi say this?’ Why did ‘so-and-so’ happen? I thought, number one, that would be a real distraction,” Trump said when asked why he made the unprecedented decision to drop out of the presidential race in the middle of the campaign.
“Secondly, when I first ran for president, I thought I would be a presidential replacement. I can’t tell you my age, the words just wouldn’t come out of my mouth. But things moved so quickly that those words just didn’t come out. And I thought preserving our democracy was still an important issue to me. I’m not kidding,” the 81-year-old president said.
“I thought that was important because, although it’s a great honor to be president, I think I have an obligation to my country to do what I need to do,” he said. [is] “The most important thing we can do is we have to defeat Trump,” Biden said. In response to a question, he said a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is still possible. “The plan that I put together and that the G7 and the UN Security Council have approved is still viable. I’m working with my whole team literally every day to make sure that we don’t escalate into a regional war, which could easily happen,” he said. Observing that democracy works, Biden said he has been able to prove that it can work. “Look at what we’ve accomplished. We’ve created 16 million jobs, we’ve created real new jobs. We’ve come close to having the private sector invest over $1 trillion in the American economy,” he said.
Biden said illness had prevented him from attending the debate, “but there’s nothing seriously wrong with it,” adding that he would do everything in his power to help Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, win the election.
