Trump slammed for not promising to honor election results

Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, abruptly ended an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash on Wednesday night just as the correspondent sought to further question Trump’s remark during the final presidential debate that he would “keep you in suspense” on whether he would concede if he lost the election.

Donald Trump’s campaign manager has acknowledged he may need a “comeback” to win the U.S. election as the candidates prepare for tonight’s third and final presidential debate in Las Vegas.

“No, I do not believe that”, Kellyanne Conway told MSNBC.

But what’s more important to many is how incredible and frightening it is that a question about whether he’ll accept the result even needs to be asked.

Now he is telling his people that the polls are rigged against him, the media are rigged against him and the vote on election day will be rigged against him.

Those proposals to grow the economy and create jobs “are the issues that affect everyday Americans”, Conway said.

Trump has claimed that election results will be rigged if he loses.

Conway made a similar point Wednesday, accusing the press of ignoring damaging stories about leaked emails from Hillary Clinton’s campaign and a video shot by conservative provocateur James O’Keefe that purports to show Democratic operatives trying to provoke Trump supporters into lashing out.

Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, a Trump campaign adviser, also backed his candidate, calling the Clintons “cheaters”.

Kellyann Conway said Mr Trump has pulled off comebacks several times before, but it was a rare acknowledgement by the billionaire’s campaign that he could ultimately fall short.

Since the start of the 2016 presidential campaign, the controversy surrounding #Donald Trump has dominated the headlines.

However, if Mrs Clinton has a big win that “makes cheating irrelevant”, Mr Giuliani said he too would accept the results.

Conway insisted there was nothing extraordinary about what Trump said, pointing to the dispute following the 2000 presidential election between Al Gore and George W. Bush as a precedent. “Absolutely not, you would contest that”, she said.

“Hillary Clinton must own all of those problems”, Conway said.

Conway then cited the 2000 election as evidence Trump’s approach is wise.

“How is that unfounded?” she asked, explaining that Trump was just acting out what he had said on tape eleven years ago. When the U.S. Supreme Court later halted a recount, leaving Bush ahead in Florida and giving him the election, Gore conceded and asked the country to accept Bush as the nation’s next leader.