Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), a top Donald Trump Donald John TrumpOmar fires back at Trump over rally remarks: 'This is my country' Pelosi: Trump hurrying to fill SCOTUS seat so he can repeal ObamaCare Trump mocks Biden appearance, mask use ahead of first debate MORE adviser, on Sunday said media outlets have “rigged” the presidential election against the Republican presidential nominee and called on voters to monitor election sites.

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“Without the unending, one-sided assault of the news media, Trump would be beating [Democratic nominee] Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonButtigieg stands in as Pence for Harris's debate practice Senate GOP sees early Supreme Court vote as political booster shot Poll: 51 percent of voters want to abolish the electoral college MORE by 15 points," Gingrich said in an interview with ABC’s “This Week.”

“So to suggest to us that people who are concerned about honest elections are somehow nutty, I think is a mistake,” he said, adding that he doesn’t believe the elections are being rigged “at the precinct level.”

Gingrich, however, did argue in favor of Trump’s proposal that voters monitor polling places so that this election isn’t “stolen."

"I remember when Richard Nixon had the election stolen in 1960, and no serious historian doubts that Illinois and Texas were stolen. So to suggest that, we have, you don't have theft in Philadelphia is to deny reality," the former Speaker said.