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Trump Accuses Media of 'Rigging' Election in Clinton's Favor

by Wayne Lee

   U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has accused the media
   of influencing the November 8 presidential election in favor of
   Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, as he continues to deny multiple
   allegations of sexual misconduct.

   "They are phony allegations with no witnesses whatsoever," Trump told
   supporters Saturday at a campaign rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
   "It's a rigged election because they're taking these unsubstantiated
   [news accounts], no witnesses, putting them on the front pages of
   newspapers."

   Earlier Saturday, Trump tweeted, "Hillary Clinton should have been
   prosecuted and should be in jail. Instead, she is running for president
   in what looks like a rigged election."

   Trump has said repeatedly that Clinton should be jailed for her use of
   a private email server while she was secretary of state. After an
   investigation, FBI Director James Comey announced in July that charges
   against Clinton were not appropriate.

   Latest allegations

   Trump's latest comments came a day after two more women alleged that
   the real estate mogul had made unwanted sexual advances toward them.

   A contestant on Trump's television show, "The Apprentice," told
   reporters Friday that the businessman kissed and grabbed her at a hotel
   where she had gone to discuss potential jobs. Summer Zervos was a
   contestant on the show in 2006.

   Summer Zervos, foreground left, alongside her attorney, addresses the
   media during a news conference in Los Angeles, Oct. 14, 2016. Zervos, a
   former contestant on "The Apprentice" says Republican presidential
   candidate Donald Trump made unwanted sexual advances toward her in
   2007.

   In an article published Friday by The Washington Post, Kristin Anderson
   said Trump slid his fingers under her skirt and touched her genitals
   through her underwear in a New York nightclub in the early 1990s.

   The 46-year-old resident of Southern California said she pushed his
   hand away and got up from the couch on which she was sitting. Anderson
   said she and her companions were "very grossed out" by the incident,
   which she said lasted less than 30 seconds.

   Anderson said she was reluctant to tell her story publicly, but was
   convinced she should do so after The New York Times, The Palm Beach
   Post in Florida and People Magazine published accounts earlier this
   week of women who said they had been groped by Trump.

   WikiLeaks, meanwhile, released Saturday another batch of what it said
   were internal emails hacked from inside Clinton's campaign. The 1,000
   emails were the eighth batch purportedly from the account of campaign
   chairman John Podesta disclosed by WikiLeaks.

   The Clinton campaign is not confirming the authenticity of the emails,
   but maintains the cyberattack was carried out by the Russians in an
   attempt to help Trump win the election.

   Earlier this week, controversy erupted over Clinton's purported emails
   to her campaign staff about Christian teachings and the differences
   between Catholics and evangelical Protestants and their political
   leanings in the 2016 presidential race.

   Clinton campaign mobilizing women

   Clinton is spending the weekend in New York preparing for the October
   19 presidential debate, but her campaign is launching an initiative to
   capitalize on Trump's unpopularity among some female voters.

   Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton takes a photograph
   with a member of the audience after speaking at a Women for Hillary
   fundraiser at the Hyatt Regency in Washington, Oct. 5, 2016. Clinton's
   campaign is now actively mobilizing women.

   Clinton campaign aides said they were planning women-to-women phone
   banks and door-to-door outreach to female voters in key states.

   "Our campaign is mobilizing women disgusted by Trump to organize their
   communities and get out the vote for Clinton, either during early
   voting or on Election Day," Clinton campaign aide Mini Timmaraju said
   in in a statement.

   The candidates have about three weeks to make appeals to the nation's
   voters, some of whom are apparently feeling the stress of the intense
   presidential campaign.

   A recent survey conducted on behalf of the American Psychological
   Association found that 52 percent of American adults feel the election
   is a source of stress.

   "We're seeing that it doesn't matter whether you're registered as a
   Democrat or Republican -- U.S. adults say they are experiencing
   significant stress from the current election," said associate executive
   director Lynn Bufka.

   The survey, conducted by Harris Interactive Inc., found that Democratic
   and Republican respondents were statistically equally likely to say the
   election was "a very or somewhat significant source of stress."

   In this homestretch of the presidential race, Clinton has extended her
   lead over Trump in national polls. The RealClearPolitics national
   average shows Clinton leading Trump by nearly 7 percentage points (48.1
   to 41.4) in a two-way race.

   In a four-way race that also includes Green Party candidate Jill Stein
   and Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party, Clinton's lead over Trump
   narrows slightly to 5.3 percentage points.