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How Trump seeks to undermine legitimacy of the vote

With just over a month to go until the polls, the dominant issue is not about policy differences but whether the US can even conduct a fair election where the result will be respected.

Joshua Chaffin

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New York | At a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday (Sunday AEST), Donald Trump told a sprawling crowd the Democrats would resort to theft to try to win a toss-up state that is vital to both parties’ fortunes in this tumultuous election.

“They’re going to try to steal this election,” the US President declared, without any evidence other than his own intuition. “The only way they can win Pennsylvania, frankly, is to cheat on the ballots.”

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