President Barack Obama on Tuesday slapped down Donald Trump\u2019s claim that the 2016 presidential race is rigged, telling the Republican nominee to \u201cstop whining\u201d and get on with his campaign.<\/p>\n
Trump has ramped up conspiracies about America\u2019s election system as his poll numbers have plummeted in the wake of sexual assault allegations against him.<\/p>\n
He trails around seven points nationwide and bookmakers in Europe\u2014where political betting is legal\u2014have already begun to pay out on a Clinton win.<\/p>\n
But the White House is increasingly concerned that Trump and his supporters will not recognize the election\u2019s outcome, plunging the country into a political crisis.<\/p>\n
According to a poll by Politico and Morning Consult, 41 percent of American voters, including 73 percent of Republicans, now believe the vote could actually be stolen from Trump.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have never seen in my lifetime or in modern political history any presidential candidate trying to discredit the elections and the election process before votes have even taken place. It\u2019s unprecedented,\u201d Obama said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf, whenever things are going badly for you and you lose, you start blaming somebody else? Then you don\u2019t have what it takes to be in this job,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Addressing Trump\u2019s allegations of \u201clarge scale voter fraud,\u201d Obama said \u201cthere\u2019s no evidence that that has happened in the past, or that there are instances in which that will happen this time.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d advise Mr Trump to stop whining and go try to make his case to get votes,\u201d Obama told a news conference.<\/p>\n
\u2018Final shot\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n The withering riposte comes on the eve of the third and final presidential debate.<\/p>\n With three weeks until the November 8 election, this may be Trump\u2019s last chance to make a positive mark on millions of voters.<\/p>\n Campaigning in Colorado on Tuesday, a slightly subdued Trump indicated his scorched-earth tactics would continue.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve only just begun to fight, believe me,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is our final shot, folks.\u201d<\/p>\n Polls giving Clinton the lead were inaccurate, he said. In fact, \u201cthey\u2019re sort of good\u201d for the Trump campaign.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are going to have one of the greatest victories in political history,\u201d he predicted, excoriating the media for being \u201can extension of the Hillary Clinton campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe press has created a rigged system and poisoned the minds of the voters,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cEither we win this election or we lose the country.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump doubled-down on his vote rigging claims, saying that \u201cnoncitizens\u201d might decide the election and \u201cvoter fraud is all too common\u201d in cities such as Philadelphia, Chicago and St. Louis\u2014which have large African-American populations.<\/p>\n \u201cTake a look at some of these cities where you see things happening that are horrendous,\u201d Trump said, going on the defensive, \u201cand if you talk about them, they say bad things about you. They call you a racist.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBy the way, speak of that, nobody will do more for the African-American citizens of this country than Donald Trump. Nobody. Nobody,\u201d Trump said, referring to himself in the third person.<\/p>\n Experts and Republican elected officials have denounced Trump for his accusations of voter fraud, prompting the nominee to turn on his own party.<\/p>\n He went a step further on Tuesday, calling for term limits for the US Senate and House of Representatives.<\/p>\n But Clinton\u2019s campaign believes Trump\u2019s hot rhetoric has helped the Democrats\u2014not only by galvanizing supporters but also shifting undecided voters to their camp.<\/p>\n \u201cWe know that he thought that strategy of scorched earth would depress our vote, but if anything, we have found that it\u2019s helped to motivate our voters,\u201d Clinton communication\u2019s director Jennifer Palmieri said.<\/p>\n Democrats are beginning to target traditionally Republican states in a bid to run up the score and help win legislative races that could decide who controls Congress.<\/p>\n On Thursday, First Lady Michelle Obama will campaign in Arizona, which has not voted Democratic since Bill Clinton\u2019s landslide win against Bob Dole in 1996.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President Barack Obama on Tuesday slapped down Donald Trump’s claim that the 2016 presidential race is rigged, telling the Republican nominee to “stop whining” and get on with his campaign. In language usually used to scold a moody teenager, Obama discarded diplomatic decorum, skewering the mogul from the Rose Garden in front of visiting Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. Trump has ramped up conspiracies about America’s election system as his poll numbers have plummeted in the wake of sexual assault allegations against him. He trails around seven points nationwide and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3167,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165\/revisions\/3167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}