Ivanka Trump: My dad will accept the outcome of the election

Win or lose, Donald Trump will “do the right thing” and accept the outcome of the election, according to his daughter Ivanka Trump.

Speaking to Time magazine editor Nancy Gibbs on Wednesday during Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit, Ivanka Trump expressed confidence that her father would concede the election to Hillary Clinton if he loses in November.


“Well, look, my father is in this to win it and, you know, I’m not interested in talking about alternative outcomes and, of course, I think my father will always do the right thing,” she said. “That’s the type of person he is.”

The Republican presidential candidate has been pushing the notion that the election is rigged against him, a claim that members of his own campaign have seemed to contradict, including, most recently, campaign manager Kellyanne Conway.

Ivanka Trump on Wednesday was reluctant to embrace her father’s position. “I will tell you that the media has been vicious,” she said when asked whether she believes the election was rigged.

Moments later, she suggested that the election is rigged from the standpoint of media bias, as Trump's campaign and allies also have claimed.

“When you asked me before, do I think it’s rigged, I think from a media perspective, it’s very hard to get an accurate portrayal of who he is as a person or the business he’s built, his professional accomplishments,” Ivanka Trump said. “It’s borderline impossible. In large part, we’ve stopped even trying with a lot of the mainstream publications because they just don’t — you know, I was going crazy around a year ago calling these reporters, trying to get them to at least hear our perspective and it’s just a waste of time. You fall down such a rabbit hole with this and it doesn’t yield a result.”

“But to your point, if — he’ll either win or he won’t win,” she concluded, “and I believe he’ll accept the outcome either way.”