'If I don't win, I will consider it a tremendous waste of time, energy, and money,' Trump says of race for the White House he claims he spent $100M of his own money on

  • Republican said he thinks he'll be the victor tonight winning the swing states of Iowa, Ohio and New Hampshire
  • Sneered at Clinton campaign for accepting questions in advance of debates - said Clinton would have been thrown out of West Point
  • He brushed off his opponent's mega rally on Monday night in Philadelphia with 33,000 people, bragging that he had 28k without celebs  
  • Trump claimed that he did the heavy-lifting financially, donating $100 million to his campaign so that he was not beholden to 'fat cats'
  • Financial records from the end of October have him giving $66 million  - a $34 million shortfall from what he's been claiming

Donald Trump says that he'll consider his White House bid 'a tremendous waste of time, energy, and money' if he loses tonight to Hillary Clinton.

'I will not consider it great if I don't win,' he admitted on Fox & Friends.

Trump claimed that he did the heavy-lifting financially, donating $100 million to his campaign so that he was not beholden to 'fat cats' who wanted to bend his ear.  

The Republican said he thinks he'll be the victor tonight, though, winning the swing states of Iowa, Ohio and New Hampshire. 

Donald Trump says that he'll consider his White House bid 'a tremendous waste of time, energy, and money' if he loses tonight to Hillary Clinton

Wisconsin and Michigan are looking good for him, too, Trump said. 'I think we're really going to do well in Michigan.'

'We're going to win,' he said. 

National polls put Clinton ahead going into Election Day, but Trump maintains that they are 'purposefully wrong.' 

'The media is very dishonest, extremely dishonest. And I think a lot of the polls are phony. I don't even think they interview people,' he said, taking his beef with pollsters into new territory. 'I think they just put out phony numbers.' 

Trump ripped Democratic National Chairwoman Donna Brazile for allegedly feeding Clinton debate questions when she was a contributor at CNN. 

Wiklieaks emails have Brazile sending the campaign questions for Hillary on three occasions, and a question that would be posed of Sanders, as well. 

'Think of it, got the questions to the debate. I mean three of them now. And probably more. Maybe mine too,' he suggested. 'If you were in West Point and if you got the questions like that, they would throw you out of the school if you didn't report yourself.' 

Trump said the jolt of energy within Clinton's campaign in the final stretch isn't making him sweat: 'We're going to win.' Clinton is pictured above in the wee hours of Tuesday morning at a rally in Raleigh with Lady Gaga, Bon Jovi and her family

Trump finished his campaign strong, with five rallies a day on Sunday and Monday, completing his 16-month journey in Grand Rapids, Michigan - a blue state he's trying to whisk away from Clinton.

His competitor visited four states, including Michigan, before she returned to New York, where she and Trump both voted this morning. 

Clinton finally bested Trump in crowd size on Monday, attracting 33,000 people to a free concert in Philadelphia with performances by Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi. The president and first lady also delivered speeches at the outdoor event.

A late-night rally in Raleigh afterward had far fewer guests, 6,000 per the fire marshal, despite an announcement earlier in the day that Lady Gaga and Samantha Ronson would perform.

Trump said the jolt of energy within Clinton's campaign in the final stretch isn't making him sweat.

'She can't fill up, you know, the rooms. I mean she was getting very poor crowds and then all of the sudden she got these people and you know.'

Trump supporters hold up signs spelling out the Republican's last name in Raleigh, North Carolina on Monday

He added, 'In the case of Jay Z the language he used was terrible. And you know she talks about me. The language was unbelievable that Jay Z and Beyonce used.'

Trump claimed that 'a lot of people left' the rally before it was over and Clinton had a chance to speak because of the profanity the rapper spewed.

'When the performance was done and there weren't too many people in the room,' he said. 'She would have been better off not having them...I could do that too but I'm filling up rooms just on the basis of what I'm saying.' 

He bragged that his final rally of the election had 28,000 attendees, at one o'clock in the morning, with no outside celebrities.

Trump said his speech in New Hampshire just before that had 22,000 people at it.

'It was incredible last night. And you know, I will say I have the best surrogates. I have my kids, I have my family,' he added, repeating an affirmation from the New Hampshire event, where he was joined by his adult children and their spouses, but not his wife and youngest son. 

Financial disclosure forms documenting Trump's spending will not be available until the end of the race, but billionaire appeared to have spent just north of $66 million of his own money to become the next president at the end of October.

That includes an emergency injection of $10 million into his campaign account a week and a half ago.

As the Washington Post noted, Trump is $34 million short of the $100 million, unless he made a significant donation that has not been reported in the last 48 hours.

As of Oct. 19 Clinton had raised $556 million to Trump $248.3 million.

 

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