Donald Trump on Thursday lightheartedly suggested to his
crowd that America cancel the election and just give him the
prize.
"Just thinking to myself right now," he offered, "We should just
cancel the election and just give it to Trump, right? What are we
even having it — what are we having it? Her policies are so bad.
Boy, do we have a big difference." The crowd cheered, both at the
prospect of their man in the White House and at the jeer about
Hillary Clinton's policies.
It's not the first time Trump has wondered if the election could
just be called for him early as opposed to on Election Day. During
the primaries, Trump used to wonder if voters couldn't just vote
already because he was sitting so high in the polls. Then, he
didn't joke about canceling the election and just giving it to him
outright. And of course, he hadn't discredited the election process
then as he has now.
Trump's calls to just "give it to Trump" come as he repeatedly
decries the electoral system as "rigged" and stacked against him.
The GOP nominee has asked his supporters to be wary at polling
places to ensure that no irregularities are taking place and has
repeatedly warned against voter fraud - which Trump claims is
rampant but studies actually show is rare.
For the second day in a row, Trump dredged up attacks on former
rival Jeb Bush, who has long left the race and been largely silent
throughout the general election process. On Thursday Trump set up a
Bush versus Clinton battle, polling his crowds on who was more low
energy of the two.
"What's the answer? Who? Who? Who's more low energy?" Trump
peppered his crowd, referencing a question he said Fox News' Bill
O'Reilly just asked him during a taped interview prior to the
rally. Amid cries of "Hillary" and some shouts of "Jeb!" Trump
decided, "Hey, and you know what I say? Doesn't matter."
The majority of Trump's remarks focused on Wikileaks and
Obamacare, but he did struggle with pronunciation at this second of
third rallies in Ohio. While speaking about jobs, he stumbled over
the company name Dixon Ticonderoga. "Dixon Ticondererarara-woo,"
Trump fumbled as others have before him when reading unusual names
off a TelePrompter. "Dixon Ticonderoga," Trump righted. "Right?
That the name? Who the hell cares, they're gone, I mean, who
cares."
As the GOP nominee wrapped his speech, he veered off into a
tangent about inner cities and African-Americans, during which he
uttered the words "ghettos." Appearing to realize that he'd
stumbled into using a loaded word, Trump pushed forward cautiously.
"Our ghettos are in, so you take a look at what's going on where
you have pockets of, areas of land, where you have the inner
cities, and you have so many things, so many problems."
The utterance comes one day after Trump laid out his plan for
urban renewal and inner city revival.