Questioned directly as to whether he would accept the outcome should Democratic nominee Clinton prevail Nov. 8, Trump demurred. “I’ll keep you in suspense,” the Republican nominee said. Clinton called Trump’s answer “horrifying,” saying he was “talking down our democracy.”
Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, who appeared on multiple morning shows Thursday, said it was too early to say whether voting irregularities could make the difference between winning and losing the presidential race.
“He’s saying that until the results are actually known, certified and verified, he’s not going to concede the election,” she said on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” She added at one point: “He respects the principles of democracy, it’s just that he can’t say what’s going to happen.”
In a separate interview on Fox News Channel’s “Fox and Friends,” Conway said Trump has “been reading stories about irregularities. . . . So it’s not without basis.”