Pence says GOP ticket will ‘absolutely’ accept vote outcome
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to the Republican Hindu Coalition, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016, in Edison, N.J.
WASHINGTON >> Mike Pence said Sunday he and Donald Trump will abide by “the will of the American people” on Election Day, and suggested that Trump’s claim of a ‘rigged” election stems from his belief the media is ganging up on him.
“We will absolutely accept the results of the election,” Pence said in television interviews. He said Trump’s complaint, articulated from the campaign stage and across Twitter but without evidence, reflects fatigue with “the obvious bias in the national media. That’s where the sense of a rigged election goes here.”
Not long after Pence said that, Trump partly undermined his comments.
“The election is absolutely being rigged by the dishonest and distorted media pushing Crooked Hillary – but also at many polling places,” Trump tweeted. “SAD.”
Pence’s words were the latest attempt by Trump’s surrogates to attempt to explain that some things the GOP presidential nominee has said and tweeted are not what he meant.
Much of that cleanup duty has fallen to Pence little more than three weeks before the Nov. 8 vote. Trump is struggling to change the focus away from mounting accusations that he sexually assaulted women in ways similar to what he is recorded describing on recently released video. Trump says all of the accusations are fabricated.
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Several of Trump’s unfounded claims — such as the one Saturday that Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton was on drugs at the most recent debate and his call for drug testing before the next — also overshadowed the release over the weekend of more emails hacked from accounts of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.
Some showed the campaign worrying whether Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., might endorse Sen. Bernie Sanders in the party’s primary, and wrestling with how to respond to revelations about Clinton’s private email use. Another subject: lining up materials to respond to fresh accusations from a woman who accused Bill Clinton of raping her decades ago. The former president denied the accusation, which was never adjudicated by a criminal court.
Amid the intensity, Trump reiterated this weekend that a conspiracy is responsible for the FBI declining to prosecute Clinton for mingling private and official business on a homebrew email server so that she might compete in a fraudulent election.
“Hillary Clinton should have been prosecuted and should be in jail. Instead she is running for president in what looks like a rigged election,” Trump tweeted to his 12 million followers on Saturday.
Threatening to jail a political opponent and fueling public distrust of a popular election — to explain his loss, should that happen — was a striking breach of faith in American democracy. He has repeatedly claimed, without offering evidence, that election fraud is a serious problem and encouraged his mostly white supporters to “go and watch” polling places in certain areas to make sure things are “on the up and up.”
It was left to Pence and another Trump surrogate, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, to explain on national television what their own candidate meant.
“When he talks about a rigged election, he’s not talking about the fact that it’s going to be rigged at the polls,” Giuliani said. “”What he’s talking about is that 80 percent to 85 percent of the media is against him.”
Pence, at a campaign event last Tuesday, waved away a woman’s call for a revolution if Clinton wins. By Sunday he was saying explicitly: “We’ll accept the will of the American people.”
The Indiana governor also distanced himself from Trump on a pair of other issues.
Pence acknowledged that evidence points to Russia being behind the hacking of Democratic emails. “I think there’s more and more evidence that implicates Russia and there should be serious consequences,” he said.
He also refused to join Trump’s call for Clinton to be drug tested before Wednesday’s third and final presidential debate.
He vice presidential nominee was asked whether he, like Trump, wants Clinton drug tested.
“All I know for sure is that Donald Trump is going to be ready for the debate on Wednesday night,” Pence replied.
Pence appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and “Fox News Sunday.” Giuliani was on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
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Associated Press writer Jill Colvin contributed to this report.
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In other words, Pence is basically saying “My running mate is a loony, but I don’t want people to know that I agreed to run with a loony, so am making is sound like he’s not that much of a loony.” “If I can get through this looking reasonable, I’ll still have a promising political future.”
No. Trump did not say the ballot box is rigged. Trump said the media is rigged. Of course, the media wants to distort his statement, so Pence has to clarify Trump’s statement. You bought into the media rigging hook, line, and sinker.
Mr. Trump said that the ballot box is going to be rigged.
You might consider reading more.
Ha, you should be saying that about yourself. Here’s the quote: “”The election is absolutely being rigged by the dishonest and distorted media pushing Crooked Hillary – but also at many polling places – SAD””. Ok, so you are a blind Democrat who skipped over the word media.
And before you accuse me of skipping over the word “polling places”, Trump said those words to infer that the media was rigging polling places. True, he said it in a way to technically not make the accusation but to lead the listener, but Trump is good at that stuff.
nomu – You can make up whatever fantasy you want at this point.
Anyone with an intact brain knows what he said and what you said. Good luck un-ringing that bell.
The full sentence of his statement is clear, the second part is a fragment and got the reaction from the Democrats he intended. Like i said before, I’m no no fan of Trump, but Clinton is bigger monster because she has learned to nearly completely hide her slimy interior.
Yes, nomu, you’ve proven that you can read one sentence. Here’s another:
“He has repeatedly claimed, without offering evidence, that election fraud is a serious problem and encouraged his mostly white supporters to “go and watch” polling places in certain areas to make sure things are “on the up and up.”
That’s some good advice. Gotta off set the black panthers
Nomu, we realized that someone could mistake your posts with ours, since we use the handle Nomu1001. Ok, so it’s likely no one will even care, but we do. So, for our sake, at least acknowledge our request. Thank you in advance.
Employment in the media is somehow attractive to leftist activist writers. So most reporting is selectively leftist.
It’s eight to one that HRC trounces this clown parade, see: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/upshot/presidential-polls-forecast.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur
Pence recognizes that trump is likely to lose, and wants to come out of it looking like the adult in the house for a possible run for the presidency in 2020. In fact, he is probably hoping trump loses. He would, otherwise, have to wait an additional 4 years.
Correct about Pence’s approach to this election. But I think if Trump by some miracle gets elected, it would only last 4 years (at least I hope so).
See how Trump runs any of his businesses and his current campaign. He simply cannot run a company or country, as he lacks the executive thinking skills to pay attention, work with his staff, and make sensible decisions. He’s only a salesman, a promoter with “neat” ideas. After trying to imprison Clinton, making friends with Putin, backtracking on his campaign promises (especially the family-friendly ones), waterboarding a few NATO allies, and putting “TRUMP” signs all over the White House, he would be out in 4 years, maybe sooner.
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if trump got elected, there would be no way he would make it through his first term without being impeached by congress. he’s a lock to violate the constitution in some way.
Obama got away with it due to the RINO wimps. Trump will make it right..
George Will, William Buckley, Charles Krauthhammer, Ben Stein, etc……are hardly Rinos, they represent core conservative philosophy and the brain trust of the party–common feature, besides being lifelong Rs—they all repudiate and reject Trump.
Can someone explain to me how rigged election voting and media bias are connected? They’re not.
They are not. That’s not what Trump said. Of course, Clinton supporters will continue to pretend he did.
Actually, that’s exactly what Mr. Trump said. You might consider either not lying about things that can be easily disproven, or reading more.
“The election is absolutely being rigged by the dishonest and distorted media pushing Crooked Hillary – but also at many polling places – SAD”
Trump said the media is rigging polling places. I’m not going to deny Trump added that sentence fragment in a way to lead the listener to what you thought, but he went about it in a way that he technically gets off from saying it. I’m not the biggest fan of Trump, but I trust Clinton even less.
I’m not normally a fan of multiple postings of the same information under separate articles but here it is again:
“You’ve got to go out, and you’ve got to get your friends, and you’ve got to get everybody you know, and you gotta watch the polling booths, because I hear too many stories about Pennsylvania, certain areas,”
“I hear too many bad stories, and we can’t lose an election because of you know what I’m talking about. So, go and vote and then go check out areas because a lot of bad things happen, and we don’t want to lose for that reason. We don’t want to lose — but especially, we don’t want to lose for that reason. So go over and watch. And watch carefully
“You’ve been reading the same stories as I’ve been reading, so go to your place and vote, and then go pick some other place, and go sit there with your friends and make sure it’s on the up and up,”
“Because you know what? That’s a big, big problem in this country, and nobody wants to talk about it. Nobody has the guts to talk about it. So go and watch these polling places. Make sure it’s on the up and up. Please. That would one hell of a way to lose.”
Cat got your tongue?
Sounds like Pence has to take care of Trump like he is a baby. One excuse for his behavior after another. LOL The GOP might be happy of he loses.
Imagine if he somehow found a way to win. All the congresspeople would be pulling out their hair when he changes his stance every other day and threatens to imprison anyone who disagrees with him.
Yup, he would want them to address him as King Trump.
Pence had the memo from the GOP. Take the presidential lost but save the Congress. Pence is a career politician, he loathes the billionaire/womanizer/thrice divorced /reality show CEO/ serial bankrupting con/ and crybaby brat. Born with a silver spoon never ate spam.
Mr. Trump is a dangerous and violent psychotic. He is convincing his sad followers that voter fraud is costing him the election, and not Mr. Trump’s own words and deeds. Mrs. Clinton is likely to win by more than 150 electoral votes and more than 10 million popular votes, so hopefully, even people who believe in this conspiracy theory nonsense will accept the election.
The Donald is only dangerous to republicans. lol I appreciate though that the Donald got the republican nomination. In the beginning it looked like it was going to be Jeb. I am glad that the republicans nominated the Donald and not Jeb.
Who’s Jeb? The guy in the old TV Westerns.
I am going to miss this when the election is over. I have never had so much fun watching the republicans self destruct. Its what happens though when you abandon your party’s principles.
Poor Pence. Damage control?
Now how in the world could Trump believe the media is ganging up on him? As near as I can see, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, the AP and the “junior varsity” Star Advertiser have been very even handed in their reporting on the two candidates. I’m sure right now the media has dozens of investigative reporters looking into the Clinton Foundation, the FBI and DoJ treatment of her classified material mis-handling, her cozy relations with ultra-rich Wall St. bankers and influence peddling among others. And there must be an equal number of investigative reporters looking into the DNC railroading of Bernie Sanders to pave the way for Hillary’s nomination. Nope, there does not seem to be any evidence of the media ganging up on Trump.
If you go by the polls Waldo Clinton will be our next president. But everyone on the planet will know that she got there not with any particular talent she possesses. She got there by deception, lies, media corruption, vote buying and ignorance of the electorate. The blind faith supporters of Waldo may want to remember this: “Be careful of what you wish for, you just might get it. “
I agree, the mainstream media is reasonably fair and balanced, certainly no widescale conspiracy. Whenever possible, I do look up links posted by followers of both candidates, and so far the ones from the Trump side have all been biased sources, so we need to know how to read between the lines.
As for Clinton, it can’t be denied that she’s made careless errors (emails) and makes occasional hypocritical comments (Wall Street speeches) like any other politician. But where is the “criminal” or “Satanic” evidence presented by an unbiased news source? I have seen NONE. There is no “special prosecutor” who has found anything charge-worthy.
She got there because theChump and his looney supporters ran a cartoon and not a campaign.
When Tricky Dicky comes off as more Presidental and measured than you, well, you know you reside at the very bottom of the barrel.
Even Nixon again paid homage to rules-above-men, country-above-party. To put that differently: Even Richard Nixon, for all that he did to undercut rule of law, observed the need to support regular civic order, and the primacy of established institutions, in his public remarks. The night before he resigned he said (emphasis added):
In all the decisions I have made in my public life, I have always tried to do what was best for the Nation. [JF note: Well, maybe. But in context you can give him this.] Throughout the long and difficult period of Watergate, I have felt it was my duty to persevere, to make every possible effort to complete the term of office to which you elected me.
In the past few days, however, it has become evident to me that I no longer have a strong enough political base in the Congress to justify continuing that effort. As long as there was such a base, I felt strongly that it was necessary to see the constitutional process through to its conclusion, that to do otherwise would be unfaithful to the spirit of that deliberately difficult process and a dangerously destabilizing precedent for the future. Atlantic
“For the past half century, the Reagan years notwithstanding, our ruling class’s changing preferences and habits have transformed public and private life in America. As John Marini shows in his essay, “Donald Trump and the American Crisis,” this has resulted in citizens morphing into either this class’s “stakeholders” or its subjects. And, as Publius Decius Mus argues, “America and the West” now are so firmly “on a trajectory toward something very bad” that it is no longer reasonable to hope that “all human outcomes are still possible,” by which he means restoration of the public and private practices that made the American republic. In fact, the 2016 election is sealing the United States’s transition from that republic to some kind of empire.
Electing either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump cannot change that trajectory. Because each candidate represents constituencies hostile to republicanism, each in its own way, these individuals are not what this election is about. This election is about whether the Democratic Party, the ruling class’s enforcer, will impose its tastes more strongly and arbitrarily than ever, or whether constituencies opposed to that rule will get some ill-defined chance to strike back. Regardless of the election’s outcome, the republic established by America’s Founders is probably gone. But since the Democratic Party’s constituencies differ radically from their opponents’, and since the character of imperial governance depends inherently on the emperor, the election’s result will make a big difference in our lives.” http://www.claremont.org/crb/basicpage/after-the-republic/
Well given that one of my daughters goes to the Claremont consortium, I’ll reply: the article makes a lucid point, that said, the crucial posit is where does the individual want this trajectory to go?
I read an article today about more and more companies – to support their female employees, in particular – are canceling all use of all Trump branded properties. We just sent out a memo to all employees explaining that any employee expense of any kind at any Trump branded property worldwide dated after midnight tonight EDT shall not be reimbursed. The only exception is penalty charges caused by late cancellation of hotel stays and such.
Just an idea for your company.
Oh poor spoiled perverted baby, you did this to yourself!!
But even that elides the more central truth: Trump did this to himself. His conduct over decades, and his statements in recent months, generated the stories about which he now complains. He bragged, on video, about doing the very things women have stepped forward to allege he did, and which he now denies having done. He’s said things on the campaign trail that no modern candidate has said—and then complained when the press points this out.
Moreover, he unilaterally disarmed, depriving himself of the mechanisms other Republicans, who have also complained about media bias, often use to respond. He alienated staunchly conservative outlets, feuding with Fox hosts, and leading National Review to call an entire issue, “Against Trump.” He failed to raise the funds that other candidates use to speak directly to voters, bypassing media outlets by using direct mail, phone calls, television advertising, and extensive field operations.
If media coverage is rigged against Donald Trump, it was Donald Trump who rigged it. Indeed…..Atlantic
Somebody is smart, doesn’t want to become president hence, the lunatic behavior, outlandish comments and statements. Let the “loser” become president! The world problems will be the inheritance!
Smart- that is hilarious.
Latest tron wikileaks : Clinton’s campaign manager John Podesta is disappointed that the San Bernadino shooter was a Muslim and not a white guy!! When will people realize how dangerous Clinton is. If Podesta had hoped it wads black man it would be all over the news.
Latest from the guy that was voluntarily picking up rubbish along Kalanianaole this morning: “Johnny Boy” Podesta and I been doing this for the last 10 years cuz we love Hawaii.
I like my sources better…
It sounds like you didn’t read the entire email exchange. Mr. Podesta was concerned about violence against Muslims in reprisal. There is never any discussion whatever of violence against Christians, of course, no matter what one of them does. Because imbeciles somehow believe that only Muslims commit mass murder.
Don’t have to resort to name calling, after all this is a family-friendly exchange of ideas, is it not? Yes it is true that those of other faiths do commit mass murder. But for some odd reason those who kill in the name of Islam are cornering the market in wholesale slaughter of innocent “non-believers”. You may want to dispute that fact to avoid thinking unapproved thoughts but then you’d be fooling yourself, wouldn’t you?
How about Timothy McVeigh? It’s a long list if you want me to start.
Deny whatever you want to deny.
Just because you seem to conspicuously avoid stories like this:
http://www.staradvertiser.com/2016/10/14/breaking-news/3-arrested-in-alleged-bomb-plot-targeting-somalis-in-kansas/
…Doesn’t mean they don’t happen. There was not a peep about the race of these characters, how they were radicalized, what church they attended or any of the other inflammable substances that would have been thrown onto pyre had they not been the race they happened to be.
I suppose if you draw up a ledger of mass killings of the last 2 or 3 decades there are school, theater and church mass killings. Usually these nutcases are acting alone. Invariably the media tries to link the killers to conservatism or Christianity, usually without success but that’s another story. On the other side of the ledger Islamist killers have racked up an impressive record that white boy mass killers should be envious of. Now it’s not right to excuse bad behavior by pointing to other bad behavior but if it were a basketball game the Islamists would be sitting on a 100-2 lead right now and it’s only the 1st quarter.
And before I forget, we shouldn’t ignore the mass killings by government agents at Waco and Ruby Ridge.
What if there only 5 votes difference between Trump and Clinton. I would ask for a recount.