{"id":52953,"date":"2016-10-20T17:23:08","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T21:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=52953"},"modified":"2016-10-20T17:23:08","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T21:23:08","slug":"trump-ill-accept-election-results-if-i-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=52953","title":{"rendered":"Trump: &#8216;I&#8217;ll Accept Election Results . . . If I Win&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article\"><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-20-at-4.55.29-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-52954\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-20-at-4.55.29-PM.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-10-20-at-4-55-29-pm\" width=\"675\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-20-at-4.55.29-PM.png 739w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-20-at-4.55.29-PM-300x233.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBy Sandy Fitzgerald<br \/>\nNEWSMAX<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump had a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/1miVbOyedNQ\">major announcement<\/a><\/strong> to make at the Delaware County, Ohio Fairgrounds Thursday: &#8220;I would like to promise and pledge to all of my voters and supporters and to all of the people of the United States that I will totally accept the results of this great and historic presidential election.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That is, he said after a beat: &#8220;If I win.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The GOP nominee, coming off a fiery showdown in Las Vegas against Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, has come under heavy criticism after refusing to give a clear answer to whether he&#8217;d concede the results of the upcoming election if he lost to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, and in his Thursday speech called the question &#8220;unprecedented.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If Al Gore or George Bush had agreed three weeks before the election to concede the results and waived their right to a legal challenge or a recount, then there would be no Supreme Court case,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;In effect, I&#8217;m being asked to waive centuries of legal precedent designed to protect the voters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"dfp1\" class=\"inline-dfp\"><\/div>\n<p>But, he said, according to the Pew Research Center, there are &#8220;24 million voter registrations in the United States that are either invalid or significantly inaccurate. Okay. I think the people in this room understand it more than our leaders . . . 1.8 million people are dead, but they&#8217;re registered to vote. Some of whom vote even though they&#8217;re dead. Which is really a hard thing to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now, I am not a politician, so I can say it like it is,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;But those are terrible, those are terrible and frightening statistics. America is a constitutional republic with a system of laws . . . of course, I would accept a clear election result, but I would also reserve my right to contest or file a legal challenge in the case of a questionable result.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump said to cheers and applause from Ohio supporters that everyone concludes he won Wednesday&#8217;s debate, &#8220;including every single online poll, and some had it at 90 and close to 90 percent, so that&#8217;s pretty close.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But, Trump said, the question of voter fraud came up in the debate, and he told the cheering crowd that his campaign wants fairness in the election and that it doesn&#8217;t have anything to do with him but rather with the &#8220;future of our country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to have fairness,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;John Podesta, Hillary Clinton&#8217;s campaign chairman,was quoted in WikiLeaks as saying illegal immigrants could vote as long as they have their driver&#8217;s license. Driver&#8217;s license. What I&#8217;m saying is don&#8217;t be naive, folks. Don&#8217;t be naive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also said to cheers of &#8220;lock her up, lock her up&#8221; from the crowd that Clinton&#8217;s campaign &#8220;has paid people to disrupt violently our rallies and to incite absolute, total bedlam.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"dfpTV\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve had occasions where we had rallies, and it was so incredibly violent, I said, &#8216;What&#8217;s going on over here?'&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;These were paid people by the Clinton campaign, and it just came out. And I give a lot of credit to the people that brought this out, believe me. This is criminal behavior this that violates centuries of tradition of peaceful, democratic elections.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump also accused Clinton of getting exact questions to a previous debate from acting Democratic National Committee chairman Donna Brazile, and called for Brazile&#8217;s resignation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That is cheating at the highest level,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;Donna Brazile, she should resign. She looked like such a fool last night on television trying to say, &#8216;Well, she didn&#8217;t know what was going on. She had no idea.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Clinton, he continued, is a &#8220;very dishonest person&#8221; and the &#8220;most corrupt and dishonest person ever to seek the office of the presidency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump went on to make other promises for his presidency, including renegotiating our &#8220;terrible&#8221; trade deals, ending illegal immigration, stopping the inflow of refugees, reducing &#8220;surging crime,&#8221; cutting taxes and regulations, unleashing American energy, taking care of the nation&#8217;s veterans and rebuilding the military.<\/p>\n<div id=\"dfp2\" class=\"inline-dfp\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;And we are going to repeal and replace Obamacare,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;Just in cause you haven&#8217;t noticed, rates are going up 60, 70, 80 percent. Next year&#8217;s going to be worse. It&#8217;s a catastrophe, and it&#8217;s dying anyway, but we&#8217;re going to repeal it, replace it. You&#8217;re going to have great health care at a practice of the cost.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump also promised jobs will return under his administration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your incomes will go up under a Trump administration,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;Your taxes will go way down under a Trump administration, and Hillary Clinton is going to raise your taxes. She&#8217;s going to raise your taxes. Your companies won&#8217;t be leaving Ohio under a Trump administration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Clinton, he said, &#8220;has raised countless millions of dollars from big donors who want to ship our jobs to other countries. You know that, you saw that last night. Remember? I said open border, turned out she wanted open borders. Boy, that WikiLeaks has done a job on her, hasn&#8217;t it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He went on to accuse Clinton of having a &#8220;hatred, almost, for Catholics&#8221; and a hatred for Evangelicals, based on revelations in emails leaked through the WikiLeaks website.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Actually the one I liked was John Podesta saying that Hillary Clinton has bad instincts,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;She&#8217;s got bad instincts. I don&#8217;t want somebody with bad instincts as our president. I&#8217;ll tell ya, if I were Hillary, I&#8217;d fire that guy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump said he can sum up his plan for the economy in &#8220;three very beautiful words: jobs, jobs, jobs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the center of what will be a historic jobs plan will be fixing our terrible trade deals, and they are terrible,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;Forty-seven million Americans are in poverty, and 45 million Americans are right now on food stamps. We have nearly a $800 billion annual trade deficit in goods with the world, and the worst so-called recovery since the Great Depression.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Ohio, he told the audience, &#8220;has lost one in four manufacturing jobs since NAFTA,&#8221; and China&#8217;s entrance into the World Trade Organization and NAFTA was &#8220;backed strongly by crooked Hillary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A Trump administration is going to renegotiate NAFTA, the worst ever signed, probably the worst trade deal ever signed in history,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He also repeated his call to &#8220;rebuild our inner cities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You walk to the store with your child, is and you get shot. There&#8217;s no education, there are no jobs, and there&#8217;s practically no safety,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Nearly 3,500 people have been shot in Chicago since the beginning of the year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump in the speech also repeated his call for border security and for saving the nation&#8217;s Second Amendment, which he said is &#8220;under siege,&#8221; as well as his promise to appoint Supreme Court justices who will look out for America&#8217;s interests.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have had a good time,&#8221; he concluded. &#8220;But important things are happening. You will remember this day. This is a movement like nobody has seen in this country before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Newsfront\/US-Campaign-2016-The\/2016\/10\/20\/id\/754502\/#ixzz4Nf9ED9rB\">http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Newsfront\/US-Campaign-2016-The\/2016\/10\/20\/id\/754502\/#ixzz4Nf9ED9rB<\/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-52953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52953","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=52953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}