Reached for comment, the Clinton campaign said Trump is trying to depress voter turnout by his “shameful attempts to undermine an election weeks before it happens”. While Trump has denied all wrongdoing, the Republican nominee has a new strategy in a last ditch attempt to get his campaign back on track.
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Trump’s remarks reflect his frustration with “the obvious bias in the national media” reporting in the last month of the election allegations that Trump sexually assaulted several women.
Adding to the polemic over Trump’s fraud claims, top advisor Rudy Giuliani told CNN on Sunday – without offering evidence – that Democratic districts are known for counting the votes of dead people.
Trump said Clinton looked different at the end of the debate than at the start and wondered what had caused that.
At the same time, the campaign squabbled with the Republican party in OH, a key swing state in the November 8 election, whose Republican leaders have not been shy about concerns with Trump.
Trump maintained his innocence and denounced Clinton and a supposed global media conspiracy aimed at denying him the White House.
“All I know for sure is that Donald Trump is going to be ready for the debate on Wednesday night”, Pence replied.
“He’s getting his brains beat in by women in the Philly suburbs”, said Ed Goeas, a Republican pollster who is surveying presidential battlegrounds and several states with races for U.S. Senate. “In places like OH, we make it easy to vote and hard to cheat”.
“The election is absolutely being rigged by the dishonest and distorted media pushing Crooked Hillary – but also at many polling places – SAD”, Trump wrote on Twitter on Sunday.
His campaign has actively fuelled right-wing conspiracy theories about Clinton’s health, seizing on her bout of pneumonia in September to suggest she is concealing a major health problem, and is unfit for office.
US investigators have concluded that Clinton’s handling of the national security material was extremely careless but that criminal charges were not warranted.
Trump began this month with $75 million in his campaign and joint party accounts, he said Saturday in a statement.
But Trump’s own vice presidential nominee, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, disagreed during an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press”, saying he will accept the Election Day results. But he added, “The American people are exhausted of the obvious bias in the national media”. “The election is being rigged by the liberal media to push outright lies to rig the election”.
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In Utah, Trump’s deep unpopularity among the large population of Mormon voters could lead to four candidates winning 10 percent or more of the state’s vote. As polls show Trump trailing Clinton by anywhere from 4 to 11 percentage points among likely voters, chief among his message has been the claim that the election process is corrupt and will be stolen from him. As sexual misconduct claims against Trump dominate the campaign, is it hard for Clinton to speak out because she stayed beside her husband Bill even as he was mired in the Monica Lewinsky and other sex scandals, humiliating her on his way to being impeached.
