Clinton's Out Campaign Manager: Trump's Talk of Rigging Is "What Losers Do"

Donald Trump's talk of the presidential election being "rigged" against him is "what losers do," says Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, Robby Mook.

"Donald Trump's campaign is spiraling," Mook said on a conference call with reporters today, The Washington Post reports. "He knows he's losing, and he's trying to blame it on the system. That's what losers do."

The Republican nominee's chance of winning the election has dipped in the past week after a recording surfaced of him bragging about being able to sexually assault women, grabbing them by the genitals, and getting away with it. In the most recent presidential debate he claimed that was just "locker-room talk," but several women have come forward to allege he did indeed touch them in that way, against their will. Trump says the allegations are false.

Now Trump is contending that the mainstream news media and even entertainment media -- such as Saturday Night Live, which has lampooned him -- are biased against him, and that there will be widespread voter fraud to turn the election in Clinton's favor. Other top Republicans, many of who have distanced themselves from Trump, are naive for not believing this, according to the nominee.

Mook, who is the first openly gay manager of a major presidential campaign, said there is no truth to Trump's claim of rigging. "We're not even going to give it any credit by amplifying it," he added.

Mook also said the Clinton campaign is putting resources into states that have gone Republican for several presidential elections. First Lady Michelle Obama, Clinton's daughter Chelsea, and her former rival for the Democratic nomination, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, will all visit Arizona this week, as the chance of Clinton beating Trump there have increased. Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight shows that Clinton has a 54 percent chance of taking Arizona. Clinton herself may make a stop in Arizona or Utah, he said. The last Democratic presidential nominee to take Arizona was Clinton's husband, Bill, in 1996, while no Democrat has carried Utah since 1964.

And the campaign will run TV ads for a week in Texas, where no Democrat has carried the state since 1976. They will highlight the endorsement of Clinton by The Dallas Morning News, which has not backed a Democratic presidential nominee in a century, Mook said. The ads will air in Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio as well as online.