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| Donald Trump: I'll accept election results 'if I win' – campaign live | |
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| 6.10pm BST | |
| 18:10 | |
| Trump is done. Here’s the (sparse-ish) crowd: | |
| The view from the press pen at today's rally. It is very small by Trump standards. Told the capacity is around 1500. pic.twitter.com/4hcOfKUo9h | |
| And here’s the new federal agency he just proposed: | |
| Did Trump just announce plans to create a new bureaucracy @ his rally? Conservatives will love this pic.twitter.com/0ax3oM2txN | |
| 5.58pm BST | |
| 17:58 | |
| Trump: “Get that mosquito out of here.” | |
| He says he’s nervous about mosquitos and tells Ohioans they’re lucky not to have it “up here” – a reference to Zika apparently. | |
| That’s what we need is a nice mosquito bite. I love you too. Mosquito bite right smack in the middle of the nose. No we don’t want it. | |
| 5.55pm BST | |
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| Republican senator Pat Toomey, like Ayotte in a tough reelection fight, also does not like what Trump said about not accepting the election result: | |
| Sen Toomey calls Trump's comment on election results "worse than unfortunate – it’s irresponsible." | |
| 5.53pm BST | |
| 17:53 | |
| Trump: “Boy that Wikileaks has done a job on her, hasn’t it?” | |
| Crowd: Cheers. | |
| Trump: She hates Catholics and evangelicals and John Podesta thinks she has bad instincts... if I were Hillary I’d fire that guy. | |
| Crowd: Boos. | |
| 5.49pm BST | |
| 17:49 | |
| Trump: 'I would accept a clear election result' | |
| Trump says that if Gore or Bush had waived their rights to a legal challenge of the 2000 result, there would never have been a supreme court decision. Like that was a good thing? | |
| Many people have pointed out that the Gore analogy here is specious, because the margin was narrow and the recount in Florida was automatic (with a < .5% margin). | |
| The upcoming election is not expected to be so close. Yet Trump warns of legal action post-result. Doesn’t sound like him at all. | |
| “In effect, I’m being asked to waive centuries of legal precedent designed to protect the voters,” Trump says. There’s no such precedent. | |
| Now Trump kind of backs up on the whole election-rejection thing, saying he will accept a ‘clear result’: | |
| Of course I would accept a clear election result, but I would reserve my right to contest or file a legal challenge, in the case of a questionable result. | |
| He says he’ll “abide by all the ... traditions of all the candidates who have come before me. Always.” But it won’t matter because “we’re gonna win.’ | |
| He’s already broken with precedent by calling the election rigged and refusing to say he will respect the result. | |
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| at 5.51pm BST | |
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| Trump says Clinton got the debate questions early but would not admit that she did anything wrong “hence the name Crooked Hillary.” | |
| Trump invokes the $64,000 Question game show scandal in which a candidate got questions in advance, was exposed and “his life was ruined.” | |
| Trump said the "Quiz Show" fraud was from the show the "$64k Question," but it was actually "Twenty One" | |
| Trump says that DNC chair Donna Brazile, who was accused of sharing a CNN town hall topic with the Clinton campaign, should resign. | |
| “Can you imagine if I got the questions? They would call for the reestablishment of the electric chair.” | |
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| at 5.51pm BST | |
| 5.38pm BST | 5.38pm BST |
| 17:38 | 17:38 |
| Trump: I'll accept election results 'if I win' | Trump: I'll accept election results 'if I win' |
| Trump says he has a “major announcement”: | Trump says he has a “major announcement”: |
| I would like to promise and pledge to all of my voters and supporters, and all the people of the United States, that I will totally accept the results of this great and historic presidential election if I win. | I would like to promise and pledge to all of my voters and supporters, and all the people of the United States, that I will totally accept the results of this great and historic presidential election if I win. |
| Is that supposed to be funny? | Is that supposed to be funny? |
| “Alright. Seriously the debate last night was amazing, everybody said I won.” | “Alright. Seriously the debate last night was amazing, everybody said I won.” |
| 5.35pm BST | 5.35pm BST |
| 17:35 | 17:35 |
| Here comes Trump in Delaware, Ohio: | Here comes Trump in Delaware, Ohio: |
| 5.35pm BST | 5.35pm BST |
| 17:35 | 17:35 |
| Clinton won last night’s debate, she won the two before that, she won all the debates for all time, and the data proves it, says FiveThirtyEight: | Clinton won last night’s debate, she won the two before that, she won all the debates for all time, and the data proves it, says FiveThirtyEight: |
| How did Clinton take control of the 2016 election? With the most dominating 3-debate performance we have on record: https://t.co/HmIwg2Lpgl pic.twitter.com/Ayaxz9jx7h | How did Clinton take control of the 2016 election? With the most dominating 3-debate performance we have on record: https://t.co/HmIwg2Lpgl pic.twitter.com/Ayaxz9jx7h |
| 5.26pm BST | 5.26pm BST |
| 17:26 | 17:26 |
| McCain: loser has 'duty to concede' | McCain: loser has 'duty to concede' |
| Arizona senator John McCain delivers a mini-lecture on losing elections, after Trump refused to say he’d honor the outcome this year. “It is an act of respect for the will of the American people, a respect that is every American leader’s first responsibility” to concede upon loss, McCain says in a statement: | Arizona senator John McCain delivers a mini-lecture on losing elections, after Trump refused to say he’d honor the outcome this year. “It is an act of respect for the will of the American people, a respect that is every American leader’s first responsibility” to concede upon loss, McCain says in a statement: |
| New @SenJohnMcCain statement on "rigged" claims: pic.twitter.com/Ue09X6G99d | New @SenJohnMcCain statement on "rigged" claims: pic.twitter.com/Ue09X6G99d |
| Nebraska Republican Ben Sasse, the original senator #nevertrump, calls talk of rigged elections “dangerous”: | Nebraska Republican Ben Sasse, the original senator #nevertrump, calls talk of rigged elections “dangerous”: |
| Statement from @BenSasse on Trump's comments last night pic.twitter.com/ZhKDX2Qgm5 | Statement from @BenSasse on Trump's comments last night pic.twitter.com/ZhKDX2Qgm5 |
| That’s five Republican senators to have rebutted Trump on the point, by our count. | That’s five Republican senators to have rebutted Trump on the point, by our count. |
| Update: Plus Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson: | Update: Plus Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson: |
| As a former Governor, who was elected and served as a Republican in an overwhelmingly Democratic state, I have to say that Donald Trump’s refusal to say he will accept the outcome of an election is just one more straw too many. It’s offensive to the thousands of election officials across the nation, and it’s offensive to a nation for which the integrity of elections is what sets us apart from much of the world. | As a former Governor, who was elected and served as a Republican in an overwhelmingly Democratic state, I have to say that Donald Trump’s refusal to say he will accept the outcome of an election is just one more straw too many. It’s offensive to the thousands of election officials across the nation, and it’s offensive to a nation for which the integrity of elections is what sets us apart from much of the world. |
| Updated | Updated |
| at 5.29pm BST | at 5.29pm BST |
| 5.15pm BST | 5.15pm BST |
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| The Guardian’s Ben Jacobs is waiting on Donald Trump in Delaware, Ohio: | The Guardian’s Ben Jacobs is waiting on Donald Trump in Delaware, Ohio: |
| People at the Trump rally just really started a chant with claps of "Bill's a rapist" | People at the Trump rally just really started a chant with claps of "Bill's a rapist" |
| A live video stream of the event is scheduled to initiate in 15 minutes. We’ll have it for you. | A live video stream of the event is scheduled to initiate in 15 minutes. We’ll have it for you. |
| 5.06pm BST | 5.06pm BST |
| 17:06 | 17:06 |
| Honey, will you answer that? | Honey, will you answer that? |
| We’re not expecting anyone, are we? | We’re not expecting anyone, are we? |
| Are we due for like, a meter reading? | Are we due for like, a meter reading? |
| WHAT | WHAT |
| OMG pic.twitter.com/MU44cWRcje | OMG pic.twitter.com/MU44cWRcje |
| Virginia was already an uphill battle for Trump. This will be a wrecking ball to his chances to win there. pic.twitter.com/SyYyWWjKrn | Virginia was already an uphill battle for Trump. This will be a wrecking ball to his chances to win there. pic.twitter.com/SyYyWWjKrn |
| (h/t @ambiej) | (h/t @ambiej) |
| In other Clinton recording artist news, her campaign advises that “on Wednesday, November 2, American rock band The National will host a Get Out The Vote performance for Hillary Clinton in their hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio.” | In other Clinton recording artist news, her campaign advises that “on Wednesday, November 2, American rock band The National will host a Get Out The Vote performance for Hillary Clinton in their hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio.” |
| Updated | Updated |
| at 5.13pm BST | at 5.13pm BST |
| 4.49pm BST | 4.49pm BST |
| 16:49 | 16:49 |
| Tenth woman accuses Donald Trump of sexual misconduct | Tenth woman accuses Donald Trump of sexual misconduct |
| Molly Redden | Molly Redden |
| A tenth woman has come forward to accuse Donald Trump of sexual misconduct. | A tenth woman has come forward to accuse Donald Trump of sexual misconduct. |
| Karena Virginia accused the Republican nominee of grabbing her arm and touching her breast in 1998 when she was 27, while she was waiting for a car to pick her up after attending the US Open in Queens, New York. | Karena Virginia accused the Republican nominee of grabbing her arm and touching her breast in 1998 when she was 27, while she was waiting for a car to pick her up after attending the US Open in Queens, New York. |
| “As I was waiting, Donald Trump approached me. I knew who he was. But I’d never met him,” Virginia said, at a press conference with her lawyer Gloria Allred. “He was with a few other men. I was quite surprised when I overheard him talking to the other men about me. Hey, look at this one, he said. We haven’t seen her before. Look at those legs. As though I was an object rather than a person.” | “As I was waiting, Donald Trump approached me. I knew who he was. But I’d never met him,” Virginia said, at a press conference with her lawyer Gloria Allred. “He was with a few other men. I was quite surprised when I overheard him talking to the other men about me. Hey, look at this one, he said. We haven’t seen her before. Look at those legs. As though I was an object rather than a person.” |
| She said that Trump then walked up to her, “reached his right arm and grabbed my right arm. Then his hand touched the right inside of my breast”. | She said that Trump then walked up to her, “reached his right arm and grabbed my right arm. Then his hand touched the right inside of my breast”. |
| “I was in shock. I flinched. ‘Don’t you know who I am? Don’t you know who I am?’ That’s what he said to me. I felt intimidated and I felt powerless. When my car pulled up and I got in, after I closed the door, my shock turned to shame. | “I was in shock. I flinched. ‘Don’t you know who I am? Don’t you know who I am?’ That’s what he said to me. I felt intimidated and I felt powerless. When my car pulled up and I got in, after I closed the door, my shock turned to shame. |
| Read further: | Read further: |
| 4.46pm BST | 4.46pm BST |
| 16:46 | 16:46 |
| Here’s a video clip from the start of her statement – Karena Virginia, not Corrina Virginia, appears to be the correct spelling: | Here’s a video clip from the start of her statement – Karena Virginia, not Corrina Virginia, appears to be the correct spelling: |
| LIVE: "Perhaps he will label me as just another 'nasty woman,'" says new Trump accuser. https://t.co/NotIDee9nf https://t.co/yguobFlfeU | LIVE: "Perhaps he will label me as just another 'nasty woman,'" says new Trump accuser. https://t.co/NotIDee9nf https://t.co/yguobFlfeU |
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| at 4.48pm BST | at 4.48pm BST |
| 4.40pm BST | 4.40pm BST |
| 16:40 | 16:40 |
| Question: Why did she wait so long? | Question: Why did she wait so long? |
| Allred: “It has been a difficult decision for her to come forward knowing that she would be attacked by Mr Trump and perhaps by some of his supporters.” | Allred: “It has been a difficult decision for her to come forward knowing that she would be attacked by Mr Trump and perhaps by some of his supporters.” |
| Trump’s hot mic words and his ensuing denials spurred her to action, Allred says. | Trump’s hot mic words and his ensuing denials spurred her to action, Allred says. |
| “Thank you very much for coming.” | “Thank you very much for coming.” |
| 4.39pm BST | 4.39pm BST |
| 16:39 | 16:39 |
| Virginia is asked about the reaction of the other men who were with Trump. “I was 27 at the time,” she says, not answering. She got married after the incident. “My husband is here and he’s–” | Virginia is asked about the reaction of the other men who were with Trump. “I was 27 at the time,” she says, not answering. She got married after the incident. “My husband is here and he’s–” |
| Allred: “And he’s not going to be answering any questions.” | Allred: “And he’s not going to be answering any questions.” |
| When did she first tell someone about the incident? | When did she first tell someone about the incident? |
| Allred: “Not long after the incident occurred.” | Allred: “Not long after the incident occurred.” |