US Election: Donald Trump cries foul after 'rigged' debate against Kamala Harris
Republican presidential candidate and former US president Donald Trump speaks to reporters at the end of the day's proceedings in his criminal trial at the New York State Supreme Court in New York City, on May 3, 2024.
Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump on Wednesday claimed – without providing evidence – that the debate between him and rival Kamala Harris was “rigged.”
“It was a rigged deal, as I assumed it would be, because when you looked at the fact that they were correcting everything and not correcting with her,” he said on right-wing news channel Fox News.
He also panned pop megastar Taylor Swift for endorsing Harris shortly after the debate, saying: “I was not a Taylor Swift fan… she’s a very liberal person. She seems to always endorse a Democrat, and she’ll probably pay a price for it in the marketplace.”
Throughout the debate, Vice President Harris made several attempts to unsettle Trump, prompting him to go off-topic at times, addressing crowd sizes, President Biden, and an unfounded conspiracy about migrants abducting pets in Ohio.
A panel of voters reacting to the debate in a Fox News Digital discussion overwhelmingly declared Vice President Kamala Harris the winner.