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"The only way" Hillary Clinton can win in Pennsylvania, Donald Trump said at a rally in that state on August 12 evening, "and I mean this 100 percent - [is] if in certain sections of the state they cheat, OK?" That was "the way we can lose the state," he said, of a state where he currently trails by 9 points. "And we have to call up law enforcement. And we have to have the sheriffs and the police chiefs and everybody watching." On August 13, his campaign unveiled an effort to somehow formalize the campaign's fraud-prevention system, encouraging sign-ups on their website for "Trump Election Observers."

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