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Allies struggle with Trump stance on election results

“She shouldn’t be allowed to run”.

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Clinton attacked the millionaire property magnate by asked him if he condemned the alleged interference by Moscow in the United States election.

“I can not speak for what he thinks”, Mr Spicer said.

But Trump retorted furiously, claiming Hillary was the “puppet”. Asked if he would accept the results, Trump said: “I will look at it at the time”. “Your running mate Gov. Pence pledged on Sunday that he and you, his words, will absolutely accept the result of this election”, said Wallace. “Donald thinks belittling women makes him bigger”, she said.

“These women. I think they either want fame or her campaign did it”.

Wallace asked about the nine women who have accused Trump of groping them, the Clinton Foundation, Trump’s allegations that the election is rigged, the WikiLeaks dump, Russian president Vladimir Putin interfering with the election and the fitness of each candidate to be commander in chief. And perhaps they passed the wrong button, they pressed the wrong button, or perhaps worse than that, it was corruption, but these people that we were going to deport for good reason ended up becoming citizens.

In fact, she has said that she is for protecting the country’s borders while deporting illegal immigrants who pose threats or have committed violent crimes.

In a fierce backlash, Trump said the real reason Clinton disliked Putin is because he had outmaneuvered Clinton – who was previously secretary of state – and President Obama in nuclear treaties and in Middle Eastern conflicts like the one in Syria. “And boy was he right”, Trump said.

Clinton reminded Trump that Sanders is supporting her now. This is not my best friend. “But it’s bad experience”. Yet in its closing moments, standing onstage with the first major-party female presidential nominee in US history, he called Hillary Clinton “such a nasty woman”. Trump’s line of thought then went Russia, ISIS, nuclear war, puppet, puppet, puppet.

As the 90-minute debate moved on to other subjects, Trump got in one last dig: “Such a nasty woman”.

Mrs Clinton said Mr Trump has a pattern of saying competitions and cases he loses are rigged including when he did not win an Emmy for his TV reality show The Apprentice.

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When the debate got underway, about 2.2 million Americans had already voted and many more will take part in in-person early voting next week. A guy who came to the debate clearly hoping to project a more presidential image was again using the kind of language that had to make his campaign advisers wince.

Americans will vote for a new president on November 8