Donald Trump for President..

This is just more of Trump's way of deflecting criticism. Just keep slinging mud at your opponent. Not only will some of it stick, it takes attention away from other criticisms aimed at Trump.

It's a technique which was used very effectively against his opponents in the primaries- along with a derogatory name. So "crooked Hillary" has been used so much that there a lot more people who believe that now than previously.

Calling your opponent a liar for small things is a very effective way to stop people looking at your own outrageous lies.

What is more dangerous are continued and escalating calls from himself and supporters that the election will be a fraud if he does not win. Giuliani has said that voter fraud in the black inner city area of Philadelphia is a particular hotbed of cheating. That's really playing the racist card.

On Friday, Trump described the presidential election to supporters on Friday as “one big fix” and “one big ugly lie”. Gingrich and Giuliani have both accused Democrats of counting votes from dead people.

And he goes beyond the election.

The destruction of US sovereignty? Wow. From a presidential candidate.

No matter what the outcome of the election, there's some rocky roads ahead, as 40M Trump supporters will potentially refuse the accept the result if he loses.

This has already been an extremely divisive election, and will continue to be so.

The divisiveness has come a lot closer to home for many American families. We've seen the collapse of support for Trump amongst white women, while the support from white men remains much the same.

What this means is that the divisiveness is not just the white families in one part of the country, state or city against blacks or immigrants in other parts.

Now it comes into the house. Wives are voting differently from their spouses. There will be millions of households where, for the first time, men will be voting for Trump and women for Hillary.

My worry for the US is what happens after November, or even January.

 

There have been protests. Probably there have been more Clinton followers than Trump followers. But when a candidate has encouraged acts against opponents at rallies; when he advocates that his opponent should be locked up; when thousands of his followers shout "Kill Hillary" at rallies- that candidate cannot complain when people protest.

Whe I googled Trump protests, I found this- people protesting Trump in the strongest way possible:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/18/us/politics/donald-trump-brand-reaction.html?_r=0

However protests leading up to the election are one thing, and a separate issue from the issue raised.

Trump is increasingly calling the election rigged. He is already calling "large scale voter fraud". His chances of winning appear to be decreasing. Many people feel that there is the scope for falloout from a Trump loss to go far beyond protests. To call out the entire US election system for fraud is a big call, entirely unprecedented in modern US politics, and dangerous. Especially when millions of voters hang from his every word as if he was the Messiah.

 

@willair I'd be interested to know what Ecuador alleged cutting off Assange's internet access has to do with the US election?

 

That article has appeared in a number of publications. Here's one attribution:
What will Donald Trump do on election day if he loses? Some fear the worst

 

We have just spent three weeks in the US and couldn't wait to see what the next bombshell would be. The election was on TV 24/7 with very obvious bias on different shows. I don't know if anybody has posted these already, but they are funny...

Genius Matches Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton's Lips to '(I've Had) The Time of My Life'

 

This applies even more so in light of the recent videotape concerning Trump's treatment of women.

An interesting article, in which one evangelical won't vote for either side:
I’m an evangelical. The religious right leaders who support Trump don’t speak for me.

Especially his calling out of the double standards:


While some of the evangelical right has abandoned Trump, a majority still support him (apart from the Mormons as previously mentioned).

Probably on the grounds that anybody who is against abortion and gay rights can't be all bad.