"The election is being rigged by corrupt media pushing completely false allegations and outright lies in an effort to elect her president," Trump said. | Getty Trump, Sessions draw heat for 'rigged' election claim

Donald Trump took fire from across the political spectrum Saturday for his repeated insistence that the election is "rigged."

"It looks to me like a rigged election," Trump said at New Hampshire rally on Saturday. "The election is being rigged by corrupt media pushing completely false allegations and outright lies in an effort to elect her president."


One notable ally, however, backed the Republican nominee. Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions told the crowd in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, "They are attempting to rig this election."

AshLee Strong, a spokeswoman for House Speaker Paul Ryan, rejected the claims on Saturday.

“Our democracy relies on confidence in election results, and the speaker is fully confident the states will carry out this election with integrity,” she said in a statement.

Republican strategist Mike Murphy went after a Trump tweet that said Hillary Clinton should have been jailed, and continued with his claim that the election is rigged.

"Trump is now attacking our Democracy," Murphy tweeted. "Any Elected R who doesn't condemn this anti-American thug will carry a moral stain forever."

Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook rejected Trump's claims in a statement released Saturday.

"Campaigns should be hard-fought and elections hard-won, but what is fundamental about the American electoral system is that it is free, fair and open to the people," Mook said in a statement.

"Participation in the system — and particularly voting — should be encouraged, not dismissed or undermined because a candidate is afraid he’s going to lose," he added. "This election will have record turnout, because voters see through Donald Trump’s shameful attempts to undermine an election weeks before it happens."

During a campaign event at Miami Dade College, Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine went as far as calling Trump a "loser" who is playing the victim.

“Donald Trump realizes he’s losing, and Hillary Clinton definitely made him realize in that first debate that he was a loser,” Kaine said. “He’s blaming everybody. It’s the media’s fault, it’s the GOP’s fault — it’s everybody’s fault."

“Now that he thinks he’s gonna lose, he’s going around and saying, ‘Oh, the whole thing’s rigged. It’s just rigged against me. Poor me!’”