Over the course of the last week or so Trump has been complaining that the election process is rigid against him; and this week he went s step further at the debate and said he will not accept the election results. Now, all of this is a side effect of him being down in the polls and Republicans fleeing his side; he can see the end is near. However, on Thursday at a Trump rally in Delaware Ohio, he took a step back saying he would accept the results on one condition. That condition being if we won; he'd only accept the results if he won.
Really, this news isn't directly anything really important or anything really mind blowing. It's importance comes from how this will affect the legislature races around the country. Everything that Trump is saying and doing is being watched under a microscope, and everything that is being observed is having a very large impact on a lot of those races around this country. All of a sudden Democrats are locking up seats and catching up in the polls in others. He is single handedly destroying the Republican party by dividing the base and sending independents packing. The best example of this is Texas, traditionally the largest Republican state, where he is currently only ahead by a handful of points in a state that Republicans usually win in by a number comfortably in the double digits. It's crazy to think that there is actually a small chance that Texas could vote Democrat this year; and that is something that could have effects one future elections for sure
Sources:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/20/politics/donald-trump-i-will-totally-accept-election-results-if-i-win/
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/tx/texas_trump_vs_clinton-5694.html
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