Trump campaign manager: 'I do not believe' there will be widespread voter fraud

Donald Trump’s campaign manager said Wednesday that she did not think the election will be rigged, though she argued that there’s “a larger conspiracy” working against her candidate.

“No, I do not believe that,” Kellyanne Conway said on MSNBC when asked whether she believes there will be widespread voter fraud in the election. “So absent overwhelming evidence that there is, it would not be for me to say that there is.”


Even so, she echoed her candidate’s message that deceased voters are still on the rolls, an argument Trump used Monday in Wisconsin to bolster his claim that the election is rigged.

“We know that people who are dead are still on the voter rolls. We know that people are voting a couple of different times in places,” Conway said. “So you do hear reports here and there, but I think Donald Trump’s point is a larger one. You don’t want him to talk about the other stuff, but he does — you know, there is a larger conspiracy, larger collusion.”

She cited the WikiLeaks hack of emails from Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s personal account as evidence that some reporters have cozied up to Clinton’s campaign.

“We’re learning just from revealed emails and FOIA requests there is a great deal of — well, there is a great deal of friendship if not collusion from some members the media,” she said. “Certainly not all or not even most, but some specific members and the Clinton campaign.”

Trump, she added, is drawing his conclusions about a "rigged" election from conservative news media.

“Also, you have the new Project Veritas video by James O'Keefe — the second one he released,” she said. “The first one was showing how some people connected to the DNC and the Clinton campaign are trying to get protesters to incite violence at Donald Trump rallies. The second one is about voter fraud. They use the words voter fraud.”

Ahead of the final presidential debate Wednesday evening in Las Vegas, Conway, who told Fox News that Trump went through debate prep Tuesday night, advised the GOP nominee to stay focused and prosecute the case against Clinton, whom he will cast as a contributor to what's wrong in Washington.

Trump “will remind people who the insider is and who the outsider is and what does it mean to be an insider in Washington, D.C., who’s been there literally for decades,” she said. “It means that you own part of the failed policies: the $19 trillion in debt, the fact that people believe that the system is corrupt and rigged for moneyed friends, for special interests, for — in the case of the State Department — used as a concierge for foreign governments who wanted to give money to the Clinton Foundation. Hillary Clinton must own all of those problems.”