“The only way they can beat it in my opinion – and I mean this 100 percent – if in certain sections of the state they cheat, OK?”
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Donald Trump not only isn’t backing down from his insistence that the only way he can lose the election in November is if the Clinton campaign cheats, he’s doubling down, and even trying to deputize his supporters to monitor the election through that lens. And we have to have the sheriffs and the police chiefs and everybody watching.
A form on the Trump campaign website allows supporters to sign up to assist in the effort.
And every party goes out in advance of the election and they call on poll watchers and those [kinds] of things to make sure that they’re not cheated out of an election. “The cheating, what they do – we’ve got to make sure we’re doing the job here in central Pennsylvania”.
But as he has fallen perilously behind Clinton since the conventions, amid weeks of controversy that have brought negative attention from the media, Republicans have implored Trump’s campaign to change course.
NBC and its partner Advertising Analytics have released figures claiming Green representative Jill Stein and Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson have also spent more than Trump, $189,000 and $15,000 respectively. The 1982 decree was issued after reports of voter suppression in minority-majority voting precincts during the Nixon administration, and will expire on December 1, 2017.
Poll-watching is part of any successful “get out the vote” campaign, a process in which election observers affiliated with a party or campaign track voter turnout in real time at the precinct level. These activities are perfectly legal.
Refrain from undertaking any ballot security activities in polling places or election districts where the racial or ethnic composition of such districts is a factor in the decision to conduct, or the actual conduct of, such activities there and where a goal or significant effect of such activities is to deter qualified voters from voting. Hasen argues that what Trump is proposing is specifically forbidden by the 1982 decree. The spots will air in five states, according to a Trump adviser: Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania – all places where Trump is trailing solidly.
“Without voter ID, there’s no way you’re going to be able to check it properly”, Trump said.
Trump, however, believes the commonwealth is in his corner.
“I think too much has been made out of that comment”, he said”.
“L$3 et me just tell you, I looked over Pennsylvania”.
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Trump’s remarks on Pennsylvania were viewed as inflammatory by critics who said the statement could cause Trump’s supporters to feel the election isn’t legitimate.
