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Wingnut

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Guess he doesn't talk with the Asshat at the top of the ticket.


Donald Trump has been raising doubts about the integrity of the election for months, but his running mate and other GOP leaders are taking a more cautious tone.

"We will absolutely accept the result of the election," Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence said on NBC's Meet The Press Sunday. "Look, the American people will speak in an election that will culminate on November the 8th. But the American people are tired of the obvious bias in the national media."

Trump had recently been putting the emphasis of his "rigged" message less on actual voter fraud and more on the idea that the media is making it impossible for him to win by reporting on allegations of sexual assault, which Trump calls "phony."

Feeling Burned By The Media, Trump Turns Up The Heat
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Feeling Burned By The Media, Trump Turns Up The Heat
"The election is being rigged by corrupt media pushing false allegations and outright lies in an effort to elect Hillary Clinton president," Trump said at a rally in Bangor, Maine, on Saturday. "We are going to stop it. We are not going to back down."

Then on Sunday afternoon, Trump tweeted that the election is being rigged by "dishonest and distorted media pushing Crooked Hillary - but also at many polling places."

For months, Trump has suggested that there could be actual rigging of voting systems. In August, as he fell far behind in polls after a feud with the family of a fallen Army captain who was Muslim, Trump told a crowd in Pennsylvania that the only way he would lose is if "cheating" goes on. "We have to call up law enforcement. And we have to have the sheriffs and the police chiefs and the police chiefs and everybody watching," Trump said at the time. (Trump has been significantly behind Clinton in Pennsylvania polls since early August.)....

http://www.npr.org/2016/10/16/498152787/mike-pence-we-will-absolutely-accept-the-result-of-the-election

geronl

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Re: Mike Pence: 'We Will Absolutely Accept The Result Of The Election'...
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2016, 06:33:41 pm »
Hours after the election is decided (lopsided I bet) Trump will be tweeting his congratulations to Hillary, pledging to support her, saying he always likes a winner.