Donald Trump has been warning supporters that the election is rigged against him, and when asked during the final presidential debate by moderator Chris Wallace if he will accept the results on Nov. 8 should he lose, he said he plans to keep people "in suspense."
"I will look at it at the time," Trump said. "I'm not looking at anything now. I'll look at it at the time." His running mate, Mike Pence, and daughter Ivanka Trump both said he will accept the results, but Trump didn't agree. "What I've seen is so bad," he said. "First of all, the media is so dishonest and so corrupt and the pile-on is so amazing." He accused The New York Times of "poison[ing] the mind of voters, but unfortunately for them, I think the voters are seeing through it. We'll find out on Nov. 8." Trump went on to claim that there are "millions of people registered to vote that shouldn't be registered to vote," and said Hillary Clinton also shouldn't be allowed to run because she's "guilty of a very serious crime" based on "what she did with emails and so many other things."
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