- Title: New Yorkers critical of Trump's refusal to commit to respecting election outcome
- Date: 20th October 2016
- Summary: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (OCTOBER 20, 2016) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF NEWSPAPER HEADLINES ON THIRD PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE (SOUNDBITE) (English) OPERATING ENGINEER, KENNETH MCNEIL, SAYING: "That to me was a blatant way of saying, of all the information that is brought forward as of today, there is three more weeks left, if more information comes out the next three weeks that show that there is some impartialities on the circuit, he might change his mind. But we had the same situation with Gore-Bush." WIDE VIEW OF NEWS STAND (SOUNDBITE) (English) MARKETING PROFESSIONAL AND NEW YORKER, STEVE CHIPRUT, SAYING: "I was shocked but yet I sort of expected it from him, he is a bit of a sore loser. So if it doesn't go Trump's way then there is something rigged, to use his term. Everything seems to be rigged if it doesn't go his way. But it's unprecedented for a candidate to say something like that. It really stirs up a situation that should be never even thought of in this country." ACCESSORY DESIGNER AND NEW YORKER, ALYSON CAROSELLO, WALKING ON STREET (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACCESSORY DESIGNER AND NEW YORKER, ALYSON CAROSELLO, SAYING: "What I watched, he was blaming for everything and wasn't like political, it was more personal which I think is not a good way to be a presidential candidate. He was very childish." PEDESTRIANS CROSSING STREET (SOUNDBITE) (English) NEW YORKER, MONIQUE WYATT, SAYING: "I thought Hillary did very good, as she did in the last two (debates) and Trump was Trump. So there is no other way to describe it." (SOUNDBITE) (English) NEW YORKER, ZACH ECKSTEIN, SAYING: "It didn't change anything for me. It was just another kind of insults for himself, self insults. He is just taking himself into a further hole." WIDE VIEW OF STREET WITH TICKER SHOWING NEWS HEADLINES TICKER SHOWING HEADLINE ABOUT THIRD PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE
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- Keywords: US election presidential debate Hillary Clinton Donald Trump
- Location: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
- City: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
- Country: USA
- Topics: Government/Politics,Elections/Voting
- Reuters ID: LVA00154TAQ87
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- Story Text:New Yorkers said that they were "shocked" by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's refusal to commit to accepting the outcome of the Nov. 8 U.S. presidential election if he loses during the final presidential debate on Wednesday (October 19).
"I was shocked but yet I sort of expected it from him, he is a bit of a sore loser. So if it doesn't go Trump's way then there is something rigged, to use his term," Steve Chiprut, a marketing professional said on Thursday (October 20) morning.
Kenneth McNeil, who declined to share with Reuters his political preference, defended the statement.
"That to me was a blatant way of saying, of all the information that is brought forward as of today, there is three more weeks left, if more information comes out the next three weeks that show that there is some impartialities on the circuit, he might change his mind," McNeil said.
Accessory designer Alyson Carosello thought the tone of the Republican nominee during the final debate was "childish" and "more personal".
"I think is not a good way to be a presidential candidate," she added.
Trump's refusal to accept the outcome of the election, which his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton called "horrifying," was the standout remark of their third and final debate and ratcheted up claims he has made for weeks that the election was rigged against him.
The two candidates are scheduled to meet again later on Thursday night at a charity dinner in New York. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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