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“I’m one of those people, or competitors, it doesn’t end until the bell rings. And I feel superstitious when I predict anything other than a tough fight,” Biden said in an interview broadcast on CBS “60 Minutes” Sunday. when asked if Trump could still defeat him. “We feel good about where we are. But, you know, I don’t underestimate how he plays.”
Biden said Trump is “trying to delegitimize the election” and that those efforts are “everything I think is designed to make people wonder whether or not they should be worth going to vote. Just the intimidation factor. “.
Trump has long sought to cast doubt on the legitimacy of vote-by-mail ballots, making repeated false claims about how they are cast and counted.
“What has really pleased me is the overwhelming turnout in the states that have early voting,” Biden said.
“I hope there are a lot of people who vote for me for who I am,” Biden said. “But I think the contrast between Donald Trump and myself is as stark as it can be in terms of our set of values and how we view the world.”
In the interview, Biden also defended several policy proposals that Trump and the Republicans have attacked in an effort to label him too liberal.
Biden has said that those making more than $ 400,000 per year and corporations should see their income taxes increased. But he said that no one making less than $ 400,000 would pay “one more penny for my proposal.”
“That is a guarantee, a promise,” he said. “I give you my word as Biden. That is an absolute guarantee.”
“Depending on who you’re raising them with,” he said. “Look, if you’re raising them against someone who makes $ 1 billion a year, it’s not a problem that they pay the 39.6%, which everyone should pay, raise another $ 90 billion.”
CBS interviewer Norah O’Donnell asked Biden about Trump and the GOP’s efforts to portray him as a tool of his party’s more progressive factions, led by two Democratic rivals in the presidential primaries that Biden defeated, Sen. Vermont Bernie Sanders and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren. as well as New York representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
“You would love to run against them, right?” Biden said. “Mr. President, you are running against Joe Biden. Joe Biden has a deep, steep and successful record for a long, long time.”
