Clinton: Trump trying to ‘blame somebody else for his campaign’

by Rebecca Savransky - 10/20/16 7:11 AM ET

Hillary Clinton slammed Donald Trump for refusing to say during Wednesday night’s presidential debate that he will accept the results of the presidential election.

{mosads}The Democratic nominee called Trump’s response “part of his whole effort to blame somebody else for his campaign.”

“You know it was horrifying what he said on the debate stage tonight,” Clinton told reporters aboard her campaign plane after the debate, according to The Washington Post.

“Our country’s been around for 240 years, and we’re a country based on laws, and we have hot, contested elections going back to the very beginning. But one of our hallmarks has always been that we accept the outcomes of our election. We do the best we can to have free and fair elections, which we do, and somebody wins and somebody loses.”

During Wednesday night’s debate, the GOP nominee would not say that he would accept the election outcome and continued to warn that the election is “rigged” against him.

“I will look at it at the time. I’m not looking at anything now,” Trump said.

“The media is so dishonest and so corrupt and the pile on is so amazing. The New York Times wrote an article about it. They don’t even care, it’s so dishonest. They’ve poisoned the minds of the voters, but unfortunately for them, I think the voters are seeing through it.”

He said he’ll keep Americans in “suspense” as to whether he’d accept the results.

Trump in recent days has been escalating his charges that the election is being rigged against him. The GOP nominee has been pushing the idea that the media is working with Clinton’s campaign to rig the election.

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