“I’m afraid the election is going to be rigged”, the Republican nominee told a town hall crowd in Columbus.
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Trump steered clear of any mention of Khizr Khan, a Muslim man who spoke at last week’s Democratic National Convention and offered Trump a copy of the U.S. Constitution after describing how his son, an Army captain, died in a vehicle bombing trying to save other troops.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump told supporters in Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 1 that he worries the November 8 election “is going to be rigged”. Donald Trump better hope there aren’t too many like the one he just experienced with the conventions just completed, candidates back on the trail, and the general election underway. “If I didn’t win by massive landslides – I mean, think of what we won in New York, Indiana, California 78 percent”, he said. He has stunned rivals with his ability to survive self-created controversies during the GOP primaries but faces a broader set of voters in the general election.
Stone suggested that polls are skewing the results to show Clinton ahead of Trump so no one realizes it when she steals the election. They’ve been asking me to go on for months.
“While Rob Portman and the Ohio Republican Party have done a phenomenal job running a textbook grass-roots campaign, the guy at the top of the ticket doesn’t seem to care if he appeals to Ohioans all across the state”.
Trump instead complained anew that he had been “viciously attacked” by the parents of a Muslim U.S. Army captain who was killed in Iraq.
Mr. Trump also said Mr. Sanders “made a deal with the devil”, and said of Clinton: “She’s the devil”.
The soldier’s parents, Khizr Khan and his wife Ghazala, told the BBC it was time to stand up to Mr Trump but he accused them of “viciously” attacking him.
Democrats and Republicans alike have condemned Mr Trump for his remarks about the parents of US Army Capt Humayun Khan, who was killed by a auto bomb in 2004 in Iraq, at the age of 27.
Asked on MSNBC Monday whether Trump should apologize, Ghazala Khan said: ‘I don’t want to hear anything from him and I don’t want to say anything to him’. “I think you have to get the American people used to the idea that this is a possibility”, he said.
Trump also took reporters aside to a hallway to offer an explanation for why a fire marshal limited indoor capacity at the venue.
The statement could be an effort by Mr Trump to lay the groundwork of an excuse if he goes on to lose the election.
In an interview with NBC-affiliate KUSA in Colorado Springs on Friday, Trump once again referred to Sanders’ “deal with the devil” and said he had “buyers remorse” now that the deal was completed.
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“Capt. Kahn is an American hero”, he said. “We honor him and his family. we cherish his family”.
