Campaign chief: Trump ‘respects the principles of democracy’

by Rebecca Savransky - 10/20/16 7:23 AM ET

WATCH: "He respects the principles of democracy…" Trump campaign manager @KellyannePolls on if Trump will accept outcome of the election. pic.twitter.com/BTwpdDyLpe

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Donald Trump’s campaign manager on Thursday defended the GOP nominee after he refused to say at the last presidential debate that he’ll accept the results of the presidential election.

{mosads}”Well he loves the country and it’s why he ran for president, and he respects the principles of democracy,” Kellyanne Conway said Thursday on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

“It’s just that he can’t say what’s going to happen if the election is very tight, if it’s just a few votes here and there, if, as was the case in 2000 … if one state like Florida is less than 600 votes, as was the case then. We just don’t know what will happen.”

During Wednesday night’s debate in Las Vegas, Trump 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.”

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 Democrat Hillary Clinton’s campaign to rig the election.

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