Republican Senator Jeff Sessions has accused the US establishment of attempting to rig the November presidential election for Hillary Clinton.
"They are attempting to rig this election," Sessions, the junior senator from Alabama, said on Saturday.
"They will not succeed,” Sessions said speaking at a rally held in support of supports Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Earlier on Saturday, Trump also tweeted the election is being rigged "by the media pushing false and unsubstantiated charges, and outright lies, in order to elect Crooked Hillary!"
He said the Democratic campaign and the mainstream media are labeling charges against him that "may poison the minds of the American voters."
The US media has launched an offensive against Trump recently. In recent days, a number of reports appeared in which several women claimed that the billionaire businessman had groped and forcibly kissed them.
Trump has called the stories of his alleged sexually predatory behavior “slander and libel” and part of a “concerted, coordinated and vicious attack” launched by Clinton and the news media to destroy his campaign.
Trump said on Thursday night this presidential election will determine whether America is a free nation, “or whether we have only the illusion of democracy, but are in fact controlled by a small handful of global special interests rigging the system.”
A Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Friday showed Trump trailing Clinton by seven percentage points.