Trump's warning of a rigged election stokes anger among followers

[Jacque67 7,328]

Donald Trumps election protection effort will be run by Mike Roman, a Republican operative best known for promoting a video of apparent voter intimidation by the New Black Panthers outside a polling place in 2008.

Roman is to oversee poll-watching efforts as Trump undertakes an unprecedented effort by a major party nominee by calling into question the legitimacy of the popular vote weeks before election day.

The Republican nominee has insisted, without evidence, that dead people and undocumented immigrants are voting in the United States.

Donald Trump's dark warning that dead will rise to rig the election

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Trump has long claimed that the 2016 election is rigged but has amplified his claims of voter fraud in recent days. On Monday he tweeted: Of course there is large scale voter fraud happening on and before election day. Why do Republican leaders deny what is going on? So naive! In particular Trump claimed in an interview with Fox News that voter fraud was rampant in cities including Philadelphia, St Louis and Chicago after long warning vaguely about fraud in certain communities.

Multiple sources have confirmed to the Guardian that Roman, who also previously ran the Koch networks now defunct internal intelligence agency, will oversee the Trump campaigns efforts to monitor polling places for any signs of voter fraud.

Roman is best known for his role in promoting a video that showed two members of the New Black Panthers a fringe group that claims descent from the 1960s radicals standing outside a Philadelphia polling place dressed in uniforms, with one carrying a nightstick. Police are called and the two men leave.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/18/controversial-republican-mike-roman-to-run-donald-trumps-election-protection

[CarlosAndSveta 808]

Trump is the worst candidate I have seen in my lifetime. His claims of the election being rigged are going to cause problems after he loses the election. I expect violence will erupt in some parts of the country. I am seriously considering buying one of these so called assault rifles so I can protect my home and family if they start #### here in my neighborhood.

My nephew and I went to Cabela's today and we each bought a:

Bushmaster® QRC Quick Response Carbine Semiautomatic Tactical Rifle with Mini Red Dot

http://www.cabelas.com/product/BUSHMASTER-QRC-W-REDDOT-CENTERFIRE-RIFLE/2041410.uts?searchPath=%2Fbrowse.cmd%3FcategoryId%3D734095080%26CQ_search%3Dbushmaster%2Brifle%26CQ_st%3Db

We are now ready for any #### that Trump supporters may try to cause in our neighborhoods.

[Ban Hammer 13,491]

My nephew and I went to Cabela's today and we each bought a:

Bushmaster® QRC Quick Response Carbine Semiautomatic Tactical Rifle with Mini Red Dot

http://www.cabelas.com/product/BUSHMASTER-QRC-W-REDDOT-CENTERFIRE-RIFLE/2041410.uts?searchPath=%2Fbrowse.cmd%3FcategoryId%3D734095080%26CQ_search%3Dbushmaster%2Brifle%26CQ_st%3Db

We are now ready for any #### that Trump supporters may try to cause in our neighborhoods.

a bushmaster? why why why?

[CarlosAndSveta 808]

a bushmaster? why why why?

What is wrong with a Bushmaster?

[Boiler 45,956]

What is wrong with a Bushmaster?

Hillary is going to take it away from you, she does not like black guns.

Where I am not legal on anything bigger than a rabbit...

[CarlosAndSveta 808]

Hillary is going to take it away from you, she does not like black guns.

Where I am not legal on anything bigger than a rabbit...

I am not worried about it being confiscated and I didn't buy it for hunting.

[Boiler 45,956]

Crazy as this sounds Hillary has a chance of being elected so you should be worried.

[Ban Hammer 13,491]

What is wrong with a Bushmaster?

qc issues in the past. most agree the magazines are junk. and that brand is forever burned in america's mind for sandy hook.

Edited October 23, 2016 by charles!

[CarlosAndSveta 808]

Crazy as this sounds Hillary has a chance of being elected so you should be worried.

Hillary will be President and I am still not worried about it being confiscated.

[Boiler 45,956]

You have some dirt on her? Made a serious contribution to her campaign? What gives?

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

Here is an article which expresses the same concerns I have.

Donald Trumps no concession stand: He and his hate-filled followers will not accept a Clinton victory and thats when things get truly chilling

Did you get upset in 2000 when Hillary advocated doing away with the electoral college and said Bush was appointed not elected?

[CarlosAndSveta 808]

Did you get upset in 2000 when Hillary advocated doing away with the electoral college and said Bush was appointed not elected?

I don't remember Hillary advocating that position in 2000. But if that is her position then it agrees with my position. I have always felt that the Presidential election should be determined by popular vote. Is there any other governmental elected office in the U.S. that is not determined by popular vote?

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

I don't remember Hillary advocating that position in 2000. But if that is her position then it agrees with my position. I have always felt that the Presidential election should be determined by popular vote. Is there any other governmental elected office in the U.S. that is not determined by popular vote?

So you agree with Hillary not accepting the outcome of an election but Trump is a threat to our democracy if he does it. I am not surprised one bit.

[Rob L 3,811]

Re: 2000 elections

I do not remember any candidate one any side of any presidential elections say they would not respect the outcome of the vote before the election takes place. Of course counts and recounts are legally remedies ( often triggered by the law not the candidate) for ultra close elections but that is not what Trump is talking about.

The 2000 election was decided by the Supreme Court in a case Bush V Gore, not the other way around. Bush did not so much prevail but win with the clock running out. It was a difficult and painful chapter but when the process ran its course Gore congratulated the new President.

The complaints coming from Trump are unparalleled. They are not comparable to the facts and actions of candidates in 2000 or any other election in memory.

In 93 % chance that Clinton will win the plurality of voters and majority of Electoral Votes. Will Trump accept that vote? He will leave us in suspense.

[CarlosAndSveta 808]

So you agree with Hillary not accepting the outcome of an election but Trump is a threat to our democracy if he does it. I am not surprised one bit.

I don't agree with your statement. My not liking the use of the Electoral College to elect the President doesn't mean I don't accept the results of the election. It just means that I don't like the current law and would like to have it changed. Trump will not accept the results of the election if he loses. It wouldn't matter if the race was based on popular vote. He is just a sore loser.