President Donald Trump said he thinks if he loses the election it will be a "very sad thing for our country," but he rejected presumptive Democrat nominee Joe Biden's claims that he'd either try to steal the election or refuse to leave if he loses.
“Look, Joe's not all there," Trump told Fox News' Harris Faulkner. "Everybody knows. And it's sad when you look at it and you see it, you see it for yourself. He's created his own sanctuary city in the basement or wherever he is and he doesn't come out,”
And, Trump said that if he doesn't win, "I don't win."
Biden Wednesday told Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" host Trevor Noah that his "my single greatest concern [is that] this president is going to try to steal this election. This is a guy who said that all mail-in ballots are fraudulent ... while he sits behind the desk in the Oval Office and writes his mail-in ballot to vote in a primary."
Biden also told Noah that if Trump won't concede, he is "absolutely convinced they [the military] will escort him from the White House with great dispatch.”
It will be sad to lose, said Trump, because Democrats want to get rid of police departments and do nothing to address rioting that has broken out nationwide over the killing of George Floyd.
Trump added that in the protests, Americans are "getting a glimpse of liberal policies," as even though the protests broke out in all cities, but there were "very liberal mayors, radical left mayors, in all of these places."
“It was not that they were not in Republican cities," said Trump. "They were all in cities that frankly, I think I have a chance to win many of those cities. But these were all cities run by radical lefts Democrats. And I think it's a very sad thing that would happen."
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