{"id":46035,"date":"2016-08-13T19:09:22","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T23:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=46035"},"modified":"2016-08-13T19:11:39","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T23:11:39","slug":"congress-blog-iran-sunni-execution-proves-human-rights-0214pm-contributors-medias-mix-up-of-isis-branches-fuels-0414pm-technology-tech-mobilizes-to-get-out-the-vote-0902am-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=46035","title":{"rendered":"Trump: I\u2019ll only lose Pennsylvania &#8216;if cheating goes on&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->By Mark Hensch<br \/>\nTHE HILL<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"rollover-people\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/donald-trump\" data-nid=\"261287\">Donald Trump<\/a><\/span> says only voter fraud can prevent him from winning the swing state of Pennsylvania this November.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The only way we can lose, in my opinion, I really mean this, Pennsylvania, is if cheating goes on. I really believe it,&#8221; he said Friday during a rally in Altoona, Pa.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said law enforcement and his supporters have to be on the lookout for voter fraud to keep Trump from getting &#8220;cheated out of a win.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the way we can lose the state, and we have to call up law enforcement and we have to have the sheriffs and the police chiefs and everybody watching,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The only way they can beat it, in my opinion, and I mean this 100 percent, is if in certain sections of the state they cheat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump said he finds it \u201cshocking\u201d when states like Pennsylvania rule out having any voter identification regulation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout voter ID there\u2019s no way you\u2019re going to be able to check in properly,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m supposed to be a smart person,\u201d he added. \u201cI have yet to understand how you can\u2019t approve voter identification at least in some form.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump said voters could not afford to elect Clinton due to her similarities with President Obama.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span class=\"rollover-people\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/hillary-clinton\" data-nid=\"188224\">Hillary Clinton<\/a><\/span> will be so bad for our country,\u201d he said of the Democratic presidential nominee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHillary Clinton is four more years of Obama, four more years of [the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria], four more years of higher taxes,\u201d Trump added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Obama is] the great divider. He has done a terrible, terrible job. He is grossly incompetent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Several polls released this week show Clinton running up a sizable lead over Trump in the swing state.<\/p>\n<p>An NBC\/Wall Street Journal\/Marist survey <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/290915-poll-clinton-edges-trump-in-midwest-battleground-states\" target=\"_blank\">out<\/a> Tuesday, for example, has her leading Trump by 11 points there, while a Quinnipiac University poll <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/290888-poll-clinton-leads-trump-in-pa-ohio-tied-in-florida\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> the same day found Clinton up 10 points.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton leads Trump by about 10 points in Pennsylvania, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2016\/president\/pa\/pennsylvania_trump_vs_clinton-5633.html\" target=\"_blank\">according<\/a> to the latest RealClearPolitics average of polls.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton\u2019s lead is smaller nationwide, however, with Trump <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2016\/president\/us\/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html\" target=\"_blank\">trailing<\/a> her by just over 6 points.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-cheating-cheat-voter-id-fraud-system-rigged\">http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-cheating-cheat-voter-id-fraud-system-rigged<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}