US President Joe Biden said on Sunday that a ceasefire deal in the Gaza Strip would be “possible” before the end of his presidency.
“Yes. It’s still possible. The plan I put together, endorsed by the G7, endorsed by the UN Security Council, etc., is still viable,” the President said in an interview with CBS.
“And I’m working literally every single day — and my whole team — to see to it that it doesn’t escalate into a regional war. But it easily can,” Biden added.
When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Washington last month, Biden had urged him to accept a ceasefire agreement with Hamas.
In the TV interview, which is the first since dropping out of the White House race, Biden warned that Republican candidate Donald Trump was “a genuine danger to American security.”
“Mark my words, if he wins... this election, watch what happens,” he said.
“He's a genuine danger to American security. Look, we're at an inflection point in world history... and democracy is the key.”
Biden’s pre-taped interview broadcasted on Sunday is also the first after his failing debate performance against Trump on 27 June, which underlined fears about his age and mental abilities.
“Look, I had a really, really bad day in that debate because I was sick. But I have no serious problem.”
On Saturday, a new poll by the New York Times and Siena College showed US Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris taking the lead in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan – three key battleground states, which indicates that the former president has lost the lead he had built in these states over the past year.
Harris is ahead of Trump by four percentage points in those three states, 50% to 46% among likely voters in each state, according to the surveys conducted from August 5-9.
