On Monday, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump made a stop at the Columbus Convention Center for a town hall meeting where he covered topics including American job loss, campaign funding and the media in his speech to supporters.
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Donald Trump has claimed that the USA presidential election could be “rigged” as the Republican presidential nominee tried to divert attention away from a disastrous week for his campaign by labeling his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton as “the devil”. “And we’re not going to have rigged elections in the Republican Party anymore”, Trump said.
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. We will make them as carefully and consistently as we can. They said in this massive building you could have 1,000 people. Buffett said: I’m under audit, too. “Together, we should pray for his family”.
Trump has rampantly rallied the “rigged” angle for most of his campaign, even citing it as his lone reason for why he can “relate” with African-American voters.
“She’s going to do right for her donors, I’m going to do right by you”, Trump said.
“If there’s voter fraud, this election will be illegitimate, the election of the victor will be illegitimate, we will have a constitutional crisis, widespread civil disobedience, and the government will no longer be the government”, Stone said.
Mr. Trump also said Mr. Sanders “made a deal with the devil”, and said of Clinton: “She’s the devil”.
Like Karl Rove, who’d just been told that Fox News had called OH against the Republican, Trump was incredulous. “We are going to turn this state into a manufacturing behemoth”, Mr. Trump said.
Some observers believe that the billionaire is trying to lay the groundwork of an excuse if he loses the White House bid to his Democratic rival, Clinton. Ted Cruz of Texas and Ohio Gov. Ted Kasich – then the only candidates remaining of the 16 who ran against Trump for the nomination – chased them from the race, leaving him the only active candidate by the time California’s primary rolled around on June 7. Over the weekend, long-time Trump ally (and one-time Trump staffer) Roger Stone conducted an interview with Breitbart.com, a website that’s been staunchly and unabashedly supportive of Trump’s candidacy.
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.
The Democratic presidential nominee has won 18 states plus the District of Columbia in each of the six elections between 1992 and 2012. Trump used this extreme characterisation of Clinton when speaking about the decision of Senator Sanders to support her in the election.
Trump also took reporters aside to a hallway to offer an explanation for why a fire marshal limited indoor capacity at the venue.
In recent weeks, in an effort to woo angry Sanders supporters to his campaign, Mr Trump has made the claim that the Democrats’ process was also rigged.
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Monday was the first time, however, that Trump has claimed the general election might be rigged in favor of his Democratic opponent.
