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spanone

(135,844 posts)
Tue Aug 2, 2016, 11:10 PM Aug 2016

The election will be ‘rigged,’ Trump warns


Donald Trump, trailing narrowly in presidential polls, has issued a warning to worried Republican voters: The election will be “rigged” against him — and he could lose as a result.

Trump pointed to several court cases nationwide in which restrictive laws requiring voters to show identification have been thrown out. He said those decisions open the door to fraud in November.

“If the election is rigged, I would not be surprised,” he told The Washington Post in an interview Tuesday afternoon. “The voter ID situation has turned out to be a very unfair development. We may have people vote 10 times.”

Those comments followed a claim Trump made Monday, to an audience in Ohio, that “the election is going to be rigged.” That same day, in an interview with Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity, he beseeched Republicans to start “watching closely” or the election will be “taken away from us” through fraud.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/for-trump-a-new-rigged-system-the-election-itself/2016/08/02/d9fb33b0-58c4-11e6-9aee-8075993d73a2_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_rigged-745pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
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63splitwindow

(2,657 posts)
1. Half the time everyone thinks you must intentionally be throwing this, dumbass.
Tue Aug 2, 2016, 11:15 PM
Aug 2016

And you suggest a "rigging" is necessary to beat you? Again, are you saying this to throw the election or because you are insane and/or stupid?

Tal Vez

(660 posts)
6. Would he say this if he thought that he would win?
Tue Aug 2, 2016, 11:22 PM
Aug 2016

It sounds like there is a cloud of pessimism descending on Trump Tower.

duncang

(1,907 posts)
7. Hey, dipshit donnie
Tue Aug 2, 2016, 11:24 PM
Aug 2016

You said the same thing about the primaries. That it was rigged. You won, still say it was rigged?

Person 2713

(3,263 posts)
10. They will blame it on illegal immigrants and refugees voting multiple times
Wed Aug 3, 2016, 12:01 AM
Aug 2016

Pitch fork crowd will retaliate no doubt

 

TaylorKS4

(2 posts)
11. What a sore loser
Wed Aug 3, 2016, 12:48 AM
Aug 2016

Trump's delusions of grandeur are a major reason as to why so many view him unfavorably. It's like he has no idea of what the world is outside of his own little bubble. He will learn a hard lesson when he gets trounced by Hillary in November.

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