Trump campaign manager: ‘I do not believe’ there is widespread voter fraud

Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, said she does not expect there to be widespread voter fraud on Election Day, as the Republican presidential nominee continues to warn that the election may be “rigged.”

When confronted Wednesday on MSNBC on the question of rampant voter fraud, Conway responded, “No, I do not believe that.”

{mosads}”Absent overwhelming evidence that there is, it would not be for me to say there is,” Conway said.

“We know that people that are dead on the voter roles; we know that people are voting a couple of different times. You do hear things here and there,” she said.

She went on to suggest that Trump is making a “larger” point that various factors — mainly some voter fraud, the anti-Trump movement and a biased media — have stacked the deck against him.

“We are learning just from revealed emails and [Freedom of Information Act] requests, there is a great deal of friendship, if not collusion, with some members of the media — not all and not even most, but some specific members of the media and the [Democratic nominee Hillary] Clinton campaign,” she said.

“We operate every day with one or two hands behind our backs. We have the ‘Never Trump-ers’ who are costing us 4 or 5 percent in places. We have the mainstream media against us, and Donald Trump is reading reports about a rigged system with voter irregularities.”

She also pointed to a new video from conservative activist James O’Keefe, in which Democrats talk about covering up voter fraud.

Conway’s comments come as Trump continues to ratchet up his complaints about a “rigged” electoral system and the possibility of widespread voter fraud as he questions the legitimacy of the election.

He’s floated the prospect that voter fraud handed President Obama the election in 2008 and specifically called on his supporters to monitor polls in the Democratic enclaves of St. Louis, Philadelphia and Chicago for fraud.

“So many cities are corrupt, and voter fraud is all too common. And then they say, ‘There’s no voter fraud in our country,’ ” Trump said.

“Take a look at Philadelphia; take a look at St. Louis; take a look at Chicago.”