Podesta: Trump's campaign manager 'threw him under the bus'

Donald Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway “threw him under the bus,” according to Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.

Ahead of the third and final presidential debate Wednesday evening in Las Vegas, Podesta said Clinton will challenge Trump on how he’s conducted his campaign, as well as his unsubstantiated claims that the election is rigged against him — and took delight in highlighting a split between Trump and his campaign manager.


“She’s gonna challenge Donald Trump on the way he’s run his campaign, on the fact that now he’s running around saying it’s rigged, even as his own campaign manager threw him under the bus this morning and said that, you know, she didn’t think there’d be much voter fraud in this election and virtually every Republican Party official has said there wouldn’t be,” Podesta told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.

Indeed, Conway acknowledged Wednesday morning during an interview on MSNBC that she doesn’t believe the election is rigged.

“No, I do not believe" that there will be widespread voter fraud in the election, she said. “So absent overwhelming evidence that there is, it would not be for me to say that there is.”

She added, however, that “there is a larger conspiracy, larger collusion” between Clinton’s campaign and the media.

Podesta said no one inside Clinton’s campaign is overweening but touted his camp’s ground game and a glimpse into Clinton's debate strategy as they seek to close out the final 20 days.

“She is coming in here to, again, talk to the American people, to take on the challenge — and anything Trump will throw at her,” Podesta said. “But we need to use these last three weeks to seal the deal as it were, to get our vote out, to make sure that people understand that she wants to build an economy that’s gonna work for everyone, not just people at the top. That’s what she’s gonna be prosecuting tonight.”