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Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said on Wednesday that American voters “will not stand up for him” if President Donald Trump loses the November election and refuses to step down.
In a debate with Biden on Tuesday night, Trump would not pledge to accept the election result, reaffirming unfounded complaints that an increase in mail ballots due to the coronavirus pandemic would lead to widespread voter fraud .
Biden urged Americans to vote for him in large numbers to rule out any possibility of Republican Trump remaining in the White House if he loses the election.
“The president will step down. The American people will not support him. No agency will support this to happen,” Biden said during a campaign stop in Alliance, Ohio, one of the battlefield states during the election. November 3.
Trump, who won a four-year term in 2016, was asked during the debate in Cleveland whether he would accept the 2020 result and said:
“If I see tens of thousands of manipulated ballots, I cannot accept this,” he said. “This is going to be a fraud like you’ve never seen it before.”
Biden has held a modest but steady lead in national election polls for months, although opinion polls in battlefield states that traditionally decide elections show tighter competition.
The Democrat also denounced a right-wing group that Trump mentioned in the debate on Wednesday, saying, “My message to the Proud Boys and all the other white supremacist groups is, stop and stop.”
“The American people will decide who will be the next president. Period,” Biden added.
Trump had called on right-wing “Proud Boys” activists to “step back and be ready,” voicing concerns that he was encouraging them to act as independent poll monitors.
The Proud Boys describes itself as a “western chauvinist” club, but has been classified as a hate group by the nonprofit Southern Poverty Law Center.
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