Trump on whether election will be stolen: 'Ask Obama'

Donald Trump urged reporters Tuesday to talk to President Barack Obama when asked whether he still believes the presidential election may be stolen from him.

"Ask Obama. Tell him to look at his tape when he was running eight years ago," Trump said when asked by CNN during an impromptu gaggle with reporters whether he still believes the presidential election will be stolen from him, as he has suggested in recent weeks.

He declined to say whether he still believes the election will be stolen from him.

Trump's campaign did not immediately respond to requests for comment about the video he referenced.

But a video that resurfaced this week on the conservative website The Daily Caller shows then-Sen. Barack Obama during a 2008 campaign stop answering a voter's question about whether he could "reassure us that this election will not be rigged or stolen."

"Well, I tell you what -- it helps in Ohio that we've got Democrats in charge of the machines," Obama said during a September 2008 campaign stop to applause. "Um, but look, I come from Chicago, so I want to be honest, it's not as if it's just Republicans who have monkeyed around with elections. Sometimes Democrats have too. You know, whenever people are in power, you know, they have this tendency to try to tilt things in their direction."

Obama went on to argue during the event at Kent State University in Ohio that the Justice Department should have a "non-partisan" voting rights division "that is serious about investigating cases of voter fraud, serious about making sure people aren't being discouraged to vote," before pivoting to his record as an attorney litigating voting rights cases.
T/H: CNN