Trump Makes Ominous Prediction About November Vote
In his latest expression of the odds he sees against him, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said Monday he has concerns about the integrity of this fall’s presidential election.
“I’m afraid the election’s going to be rigged, I have to be honest,” Trump told a crowd in Columbus, Ohio, during a campaign appearance. He did not go into detail.
Complaints about a “rigged system” have been a feature of Trump’s campaign, targeting first the Republican establishment and later the efforts of the Democratic Party to hamstring the campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
“We’ll will never be able to fix a rigged system by counting on the same people who have rigged it in the first place,” Trump said in a June speech. “The insiders wrote the rules of the game to keep themselves in power and in the money. That’s why we’re asking Bernie Sanders’ voters to join our movement: so together we can fix the system for all Americans. So important. This includes fixing all of our many disastrous trade deals. … Because it’s not just the political system that’s rigged, it’s the whole economy. It’s rigged by big donors who want to keep wages down. It’s rigged by big businesses who want to leave our country, fire our workers, and sell their products back into the United States with absolutely no consequences for them. It’s rigged by bureaucrats who are trapping kids in failing schools. It’s rigged against you, the American people.”
As for the impact of the “rigged” system on the election, Trump supporter Roger Stone has said voter fraud is “widespread” and that if Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton wins a state like Florida after polls show Trump in the lead, the election would be “illegitimate.”
“If there’s voter fraud, this election will be illegitimate, the election of the winner will be illegitimate, we will have a constitutional crisis, widespread civil disobedience, and the government will no longer be the government,” Stone said. He also promised a “bloodbath” if the Democrats attempt to “steal” the election.
During Trump’s Columbus appearance on Monday, he focused on the economy.
“They call it the Rust Belt for a reason: because everything is rusting and rotting,” Trump said. “They’ve lost their jobs, they’re moving to Mexico.
He said that if elected, he would end the cycle of companies that move U.S. jobs to Mexico.
“If you leave Ohio, you’re not going to make your product and sell it back to Ohio . … You’re going to have a tax to pay,” Trump said. (For more from the author of “Trump Makes Ominous Prediction About November Vote” please click HERE)
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