Hours after national polls revealed that Hillary Clinton was leading by seven points over Donald Trump following last week’s Democratic convention, Mr Trump made an unprecedented assertion.
Hours after national polls revealed that Hillary Clinton was leading by seven points over Donald Trump following last week’s Democratic convention, Mr Trump made an unprecedented assertion. The Republican party presidential nominee said that he fears the upcoming presidential election “is going to be rigged”.
“I’m afraid the election is going to be rigged, I have to be honest,” Mr Trump said during a town hall in Columbus, Ohio on Monday.
He did not elaborate but later repeated the charge on Fox News, saying: “November 8th, we’d better be careful, because that election is going to be rigged. And I hope the Republicans are watching closely or it’s going to be taken away from us.”
Perhaps trying to divert attention away from a disastrous week for his campaign, Mr Trump also escalated his rhetoric about Democratic rival Ms Clinton. In a packed school gym in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, he called the former secretary of state “the devil”.
While speaking about the decision of Senator Bernie Sanders to support Ms Clinton in the election, Mr Trump said, “He (Sanders) made a deal with the devil. She’s the devil.”
For the past several weeks Mr Trump has been calling Ms Clinton “crooked” in his rallies.
But at the Monday rally he said, “His people are angry at him, and they should be. If he would have not just done anything, gone home, go to sleep, relax, he would have been a hero. But he made a deal with the devil. She’s the devil.” Mr Trump has faced a barrage of criticism following his comments about the Gold Star parents of a Pakistani-American Muslim soldier killed in Iraq.
