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PBS News Hour - Segments

Biden predicts fair election but says he's uncertain it will be peaceful

PBS News Hour - Segments

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Vice President Kamala Harris is campaigning across Michigan while former President Donald Trump touched down in Georgia, a state still reeling from Hurricane Helene. All this as President Biden weighed in on election security in his first-ever appearance in the White House briefing room. Lisa Desjardins reports. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Turning now to the presidential race, Vice President Kamala Harris is campaigning across Michigan,

0:06.4

while former President Donald Trump touched down in Georgia, a state still reeling from Hurricane

0:11.7

Helene.

0:12.8

All this as President Biden weighed in on election security

0:16.2

in his first ever appearance in the White House briefing room.

0:19.5

Lisa Desjardin reports. At the White House, among the questions for the departing president, Politics Mondays Tamara

0:27.1

Keith asked Mr. Biden about the upcoming election and whether it will be free, fair, and peaceful.

0:33.6

Two separate questions.

0:35.0

I'm confident to be free and fair.

0:38.2

I don't know whether it will be peaceful.

0:40.5

The things that Trump has said and the things that he said last time out when he didn't like the outcome of the election were very dangerous.

0:49.0

In Georgia, the former president responded.

0:52.0

I don't know anything about what he said.

0:53.8

I only can hope that it's going to be free and fair.

0:57.1

I think in this state it will be, and I hope in every state it will be.

1:00.6

I think we're going to do very well.

1:01.8

But right now we're focused on this

1:03.1

we're not focused on the election.

1:05.0

Trump was on the ground in Evans, Georgia meeting members of the National Guard

1:08.9

shaking hands alongside an old foe, Georgia's Republican governor Brian Kemp. While Trump has raised millions

1:16.1

for recovery through a go-fund me, the dual appearance raised the specter of 2020. Kemp took

1:22.2

months to endorse Trump and Trump attacked him for years

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