“I’ve never heard of somebody complaining that they got cheated before the game was over or before the score was even tallied”, he said.
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“Of course the election will not be rigged! What does that mean?”
The president said that this upcoming election “will be an election like every other election” and suggested that Trump “go out there and try to win the election”.
He noted that presidential elections are not run on a federal basis, but instead state-by-state.
“Our responsibility’s to monitor and preserve the integrity of the voting process”, he said. “And the question I think that they have to ask themselves if you are repeatedly having to say in very strong terms that what he has said is unacceptable why are you still endorsing him?” “That doesn’t seem to be the case today”.
In regards to the presidential race, Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton will soon be receiving classified briefings, giving them access to sensitive information about national security and America’s military posture.
President Obama shortened the sentences of 214 people Wednesday, the most commutations in a single day since at least 1900.
The Republican campaign to retake the White House is reeling from a series of self-inflicted scandals as Trump has in recent days criticized Muslims, babies, firefighters and the military, prompting his wincing Republican backers to issue awkward denunciations.
Some Republicans have said Clinton should be denied access to such briefings because of her handling of classified material on a private email server while she was secretary of state.
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Nathman, who retired in 2007, called the Republican businessman “unstable” and said his war of words with Khizr and Ghazala Khan should disqualify him from becoming president. I listen to our leader, Mitt Romney, explain that he was not going to vote for either Trump or Hillary. An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released Thursday put Clinton’s support 47% to Trump’s 38%, an expansion of the 5 percentage point lead she held last month.
