Trump blasts 'dirty polls' after rigged election claims

By Anna Giaritelli, Anna Giaritelli

Published November 02, 2016

After weeks of claiming the 2016 presidential election is rigged in Hillary Clinton's favor, Donald Trump said on Thursday that national and state polls conducted by media outlets and nonpartisan groups are also perverted to help the Democratic nominee.

Fox News host Bill O'Reilly asked the Republican candidate on Thursday evening whether he believed certain news outlets and other organizations have their thumb on the scale and want Clinton to come out on top.

"Absolutely. I have no doubt about it," Trump responded, citing the third debate as an example of the biased polling. "I won the third debate, easily. It wasn't even a contest and everybody had me winning ... And then CNN did a poll and they had me losing somewhat. And I said, 'How did that happen? I wonder.' And then there were other polls that were, look, I mean, I'm winning in certain polls, and then in other polls, the dirty polls we call them, I was losing by, you know, numbers that were ridiculous."

Trump specifically called out the Associated Press, which currently has him trailing the former secretary of state by 14 points nationally. He also knocked ABC News, where he was down 12 points to Clinton at one point, but has recently made a comeback.