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Daily Kos: Biden: Trump 'is going to try to steal this election'

Berry Craig
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The AFL-CIO endorsed Biden for president.

By JOAN McCARTER

Former Vice President Joe Biden is prepared both to win the presidency and for Donald Trump to refuse to accept the results of election. In an interview with Biden on the Daily Show on Wednesday, host Trevor Noah asked if Biden had considered what would happen if Trump refused to leave. "Yes, I have," he quickly responded.

He's also concerned about his campaign being "moot," as Noah suggested, if voter suppression keeps Democratic voters out of the polls. "It's my greatest concern. My single greatest concern," Biden said. "This president is going to try to steal this election," he continued. "This is a guy who said that all mail-in ballots are fraudulent, voting by mail, while he sits behind the desk in the Oval Office and writes his mail-in ballot to vote in the primary." The Biden campaign is preparing for that, he said. "We're putting together a major initiative of lawyers to go out and make sure that we're in every single district in the country to patrol this."

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