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Trump claims US presidential debate was ‘rigged’ against him

Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gives remarks at the National Guard Association of the United States’ 146th General Conference & Exhibition Michigan in Detroit, Michigan, on August 26, 2024. (Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY / AFP)

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.”

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