In a press conference in The Rose Garden, President Obama called out Donald Trump for his unfounded criticism of the voting process and for “threatening the peaceful transfer of power.”
“I have never seen in my lifetime, or in modern political history, any presidential candidate trying to discredit the elections and the elections process before votes have even taken place,” the president said. “It’s unprecedented. It happens to be based on no facts.”
The president continued;
“The notion that somehow if Mr. Trump loses Florida it’s because of ‘those people’ that you have to watch out for, is both irresponsible, and by the way, doesn’t really show the kind of leadership and toughness that you’d want out of a president.”
“You start whining before the game’s even over, if whenever things are going badly for you and you lose you start blaming somebody else, then you don’t have what it takes to be in this job.”
“But the larger point that I want to emphasize here is that there is no serious person out there who would suggest somehow that you could even, you could even rig America’s elections, in part because they’re so decentralized, and the numbers of votes involved. There’s no evidence that that has happened in the past, or that there are instances in which that will happen this time.”
“And so, I’d advise Mr. Trump to stop whining and go try and make his case to get votes.”
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— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) October 18, 2016
