On Election Day Fox & Friends, 'superstitious' Donald Trump insists the polls are rigged


Donald Trump ended his final campaign rally in Michigan after 1 a.m. on Tuesday, but he still called in to Fox & Friends a few hours later. "It's very exciting," he said when Brian Kilmeade asked how he is doing on Election Day. "I'm a little bit superstitious," Trump added. "So when you said please call, I said I'll call. But I won many primaries speaking to you first thing in the morning, so I'm going to keep that string going."
Trump said he is doing really well in Ohio, New Hampshire, and Iowa, and also Michigan and Wisconsin. Kilmeade asked if Trump was "intimidated" by Hillary Clinton's massive rally in Philadelphia on Monday night, and Trump said no, because "she can't fill up the rooms" without celebrities. "You know, in the case of Jay Z, the language he used was terrible, and you know, she talks about me, and the language was unbelievable that Jay Z and Beyoncé used," he said. In terms of surrogates, his kids "are better than the people that you just said."
Steve Doocy asked Trump about Election Day, saying "the polls, for the most part right now, are too close to call." Ultimately, he asked, "do you think that the polls we've seen over the last week or two going back are wrong, because the pollsters are not factoring in how many Democrats are going to be voting for you," he said, citing early voting, "and also just the gigantic number of Republicans who have turned out to see you, the enthusiasm level? Do you think those things the pollsters are getting wrong?"
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"I do think a lot of the polls are purposefully wrong," Trump said. "The media is very dishonest, extremely dishonest, and I think a lot of the polls are phony. I don't even think they interview people, I think they just put out phony numbers." Trump said he thinks his numbers really started going up after the polls, and again after his series of "really important speeches." Kilmeade asked if Trump has any regrets. "Well, Brian, there's always regrets," he said. "Sure, there's things I would have done differently, but you know, you have to just go forward." His final message to America was go vote. Watch below. Peter Weber
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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.
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