Donald Trump, trailing narrowly in presidential polls, has issued a warning to worried Republican voters: The election will be “rigged” against him — and he could lose as a result. “If the election is rigged, I would not be surprised,” he told The Washington Post in an interview Tuesday afternoon. [Trump refuses to support Ryan, McCain in upcoming Republican primaries]Since the 2000 election, which ended in a legal battle that stopped recounts of ballots in Florida, paranoia about the nation’s election system has mushroomed. Now, Trump is reviving the theme to highlight the possibility of voter fraud in November. On Fox News, Trump tried to tell Sanders’s supporters that they already had seen an election wrested away by the political elite.

Source: Washington Post August 02, 2016 23:35 UTC