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HipChick

(25,485 posts)
Sun Oct 16, 2016, 10:35 AM Oct 2016

Trump is "swinging at every phantom of his own imagination, because he knows he's losing


Tim Kaine Blasts Donald Trump's Rigged-Election Claim as 'Scare Tactics'

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/tim-kaine-blasts-donald-trumps-rigged-election-claim/story?id=42829977

Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Tim Kaine slammed Donald Trump's recent claims that the election is rigged as "scare tactics."

"Donald Trump has kind of started to go wilder and wilder," Kaine told ABC’s Martha Raddatz on ABC’s “This Week.” “He started to make wild claims, kind of scorched-earth claims about the election being rigged ... He shouldn't be engaging in those scare tactics."

Trump has warned supporters that the election is not being conducted fairly, telling a crowd in New Hampshire Saturday, "Remember, it's a rigged system. It's a rigged election. We're gonna beat the rigged system. We're gonna beat the rigged election."

Kaine said that to counter such claims, “We have to keep putting out a message, and we need to call on everybody to speak out about the fact that we run elections and we run them well here ... we’re needing to push that message, and we ask the GOP leaders also to stand up for the integrity of the American electoral process."

Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan, for his part, is "fully confident" that the election will be carried out fairly, his spokesperson said Saturday.

"Our democracy relies on confidence in election results, and the speaker is fully confident the states will carry out this election with integrity," Ryan's national press secretary AshLee Strong told ABC News on Saturday.
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Trump is "swinging at every phantom of his own imagination, because he knows he's losing (Original Post) HipChick Oct 2016 OP
I like Tim Kaine! Cracklin Charlie Oct 2016 #1
this teaparty idiot heaven05 Oct 2016 #2

Cracklin Charlie

(12,904 posts)
1. I like Tim Kaine!
Sun Oct 16, 2016, 10:56 AM
Oct 2016

That was a calm, measured response to Assface's election rigging claims.

Can we expect the media to show some action on this attempt to tone down the rigged election rhetoric?

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
2. this teaparty idiot
Sun Oct 16, 2016, 01:19 PM
Oct 2016

by his statement, is leaving open the ability to say there was no integrity to this election. He's waiting to see how the winds blows. What a fucking snake. And he was voted in by americans with no integrity or principle.

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