Donald Trump, trailing his opponent in key battleground
states polls less than two weeks from Election Day, said Thursday he'd like to
"cancel the election" and be declared the winner.
"Just
thinking to myself right now, we should just cancel the election and just give
it to Trump," the Republican presidential nominee said during a rally here
on Thursday.
"Her
policies are so bad. Boy, do we have a big difference," he added of his
Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.
The
apparently lighthearted comment falls against the backdrop of Trump's repeated
and serious questioning of the legitimacy of the presidential election in
recent weeks as he has tumbled in the polls.
Trump
has called the election "rigged," argued that the media and
establishment politicians are conspiring to sink his campaign and warned
supporters that the presidency could be stolen from them due to voter fraud --
instances of which are extremely rare.
Trump
is trailing Clinton in national tracking polls and in key battleground states,
and it’s unclear how Trump can amass the Electoral College votes needed to win
the presidency if polls hold where they are through Election Day.
Trump's
comments about the election also came as he mocked Clinton as "low
energy" for the second time in as many days, even polling the crowd to ask
them if they think Clinton or his GOP primary foil Jeb Bush is more "low
energy."
"Who
is more low energy, Jeb Bush or Hillary Clinton?" Trump asked the crowd,
re-upping a question he said Fox News host Bill O'Reilly asked him earlier in
an interview airing Thursday evening.
"Hillary!"
replied most of the crowd.
Trump
had repeatedly mocked Bush, the very early favorite to win the GOP presidential
nomination, as "low energy" during the primary contest and has
repeatedly argued that Clinton does not have the "strength or
stamina" to serve as president. On Thursday, he referred to her as
"very low energy."
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