US President Joe Biden has said he is not confident there will be a peaceful transition of power if Donald Trump loses the presidential election in November.

"[Trump] means what he says, we don’t take him seriously. He means it, all this stuff about ‘if we lose it will be a bloodbath’.”

Mr Trump’s comment that it would “be a bloodbath for the country” if he loses the election, made as he was talking about the auto industry in March, triggered a wave of criticism.

The Trump campaign, however, said the comment was specifically about the auto industry and had been deliberately taken out of context. It sent a fundraising email which said Trump’s political opponents and others had been “viciously” misquoting him.

  • flerp@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    That’s the whole point of people wanting ranked choice, then they can make their voice heard by voting for more progressive candidates while not having to worry that they’re voting for someone who can’t win and are therefore technically supporting the party they don’t want to win. The more votes third party candidates get, the more seriously they get taken even if they don’t win. You can’t do that with a two party system.

    All the people who you’re worried about voting for the “crazies” are already voting for the crazies, you’re not going to get current moderates or progressives all of a sudden voting for the crazies because there are more options of crazy so I’m not sure what you’re worried about.

    • glizzard@lemmy.ca
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      5 months ago

      Except even in progressive spaces you can easily flood the zone with trash and hand-wave it away on proportion. Y’all keep wishing for your demise, this is what the left does after all