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Politicians often urge supporters to get out and vote. But Donald Trump wants them to go further: get out and vote, and then stake out polling places to watch for cheating.

At a Friday campaign event in Altoona, Penn., the Republican presidential nominee said voting might not be enough for him to win.

"The only way we can lose in my opinion — I really mean this — in Pennsylvania, is if cheating goes on," Trump said. "We have to call up law enforcement. And we have to have the sheriffs and the police chiefs and everybody watching."

Leisher wrote:Trump is apologizing.

Maybe someone finally convinced him that all he'd need to do to win is shut his mouth?

Donald Trump on Thursday expressed regret over causing “personal pain” through ill-chosen words he has used “in the heat of debate,” an unexpected and uncharacteristic declaration of remorse for a candidate whose public persona is defined by his combative and bombastic style.

Speaking Thursday, Trump did not specify what he regretted and did not directly apologize to anyone.

“While sometimes I can be too honest...

Attempting to verify his political beliefs, Anantha said he was a conservative and expressed views in line with those of Trump, including opposition to Black Lives Matter protesters, who were demonstrating Thursday night outside the venue, and his belief that "radical Islam is a large threat to our country."

"I couldn't believe what was going on," he said of the incident. "Obviously now I'm very angry. I've wasted a bunch of time coming here. I may have wasted six months of my life supporting Donald Trump, who doesn't even let me come to his rallies."

Speaking to a predominantly all-white audience of about 6,000 people, Trump appealed directly to blacks for votes.
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Early in the speech, Trump focused his attention on African-American voters, perhaps aware that analysts have said his chances of election are slim if he can't do better with minorities. He predicted that given a chance to govern, he would win 95% of the African American vote in the future.
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A recent EPIC-MRA poll reported by the Free Press last week showed Trump behind Clinton in Michigan among black voters by a margin of 85%-2%, with 10% undecided.

"Mexico will become the car capital of the world very quickly and Michigan is going to end up with a lot of empty buildings all over the place unless you elect Donald Trump," he said.

After the 2012 presidential election, some conservatives made claims of voter fraud in Pennsylvania that were never substantiated. Mark Braden, a Republican election lawyer, said that while there have been cases of voter fraud over decades, “the election system in the United States generally works extremely well and fraud, although real, is modest.”

Roger J. Stone Jr., an informal adviser to Mr. Trump, wrote in The Hill that electronic voting machines could be “manipulated.”

“We are now living in a fake reality of constructed data and phony polls,” he added.

Mr. Braden, the Republican election lawyer, said that sweeping talk about fraud could backfire in tight Senate races in which Republicans end up ahead by a slim margin.

“From my perspective, no, it is not helping,” he said. “A more measured, thoughtful discussion of the issue, which is worth discussing, would be helpful.”

“But that,” he added, “does not seem to be his style.”

GORDON wrote:It was a while back, I don't remember all the details. Something about felons voting?

“I only worry for the country in that Hillary Clinton was careless and negligent in allowing Weiner to have such close proximity to highly classified information. Who knows what he learned and who he told? It’s just another example of Hillary Clinton’s bad judgment. It is possible that our country and its security have been greatly compromised by this.”