Trump claims election is ‘rigged’ and seems to suggest Clinton was on drugs at debate

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Donald Trump suggested without evidence Saturday that Democrat Hillary Clinton might have been on drugs at their most recent debate and that the election is “rigged” against him, adding a new round of unsubstantiated assertions to an increasingly scathing campaign.

Trump’s campaign also announced fundraising numbers that showed he was at a 2-to-1 cash disadvantage against Clinton heading into October. And the nominee severed ties with the Republican Party chairman of Ohio, according to Trump’s Ohio state director, highlighting the intraparty discord in a key swing state as the election nears.

The GOP presidential nominee’s unsubstantiated claims about a corrupted election, which have become more frequent in recent days amid a growing list of women who allege he has made unwanted sexual advances, drew pushback from the office of House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), who has distanced himself from Trump’s campaign. In a statement, Ryan spokeswoman AshLee Strong said, “Our democracy relies on confidence in election results, and the speaker is fully confident the states will carry out this election with integrity.”

At a rally here in Portsmouth, Trump said he and Clinton should be required to take drug tests before the third presidential debate Wednesday, insinuating that something “is going on with her.”

“Athletes, they make them take a drug test, right?” said Trump. “I think we should take a drug test prior to the debate. I do. I think we should, why don’t we do that? We should take a drug test prior, because I don’t know what’s going on with her. But at the beginning of her last debate she was all pumped up at the beginning and at the end it was like, ‘Oh, take me down.’ She could barely reach her car.”

Thousands take part in anti-government protest in Hungary

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Thousands of people in Hungary protested on Sunday against government corruption and to demand the preservation of press freedoms.

A rally called by civic groups and small opposition parties was held on Free Press Road, a traditional location for protests but made more symbolic by last week's closure of the largest opposition newspaper.

Publishing company Mediaworks said the Nepszabadsag newspaper's "considerable" losses and falling readership led to its closure. Its journalists are still under contract but there's little chance that the paper will reopen.

Miklos Hargitai, a Nepszabadsag journalist, said Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government was the only one since the 1990 end of the communist regime "which doesn't tolerate any control or criticism, not even questions," noting that Orban hadn't given an interview to the paper in 10 years.

"We are now contemporaries of a thieving regime, but we don't have to be its accomplices," Hargitai said. "We always have another choice."

Orban's Fidesz party insisted that the paper's closure was a purely financial decision and blamed the Socialist Party, one of whose foundations sold its minority stake to Mediaworks last year, for its demise.

"Contrary to the opposition's claims, the closure of Nepszabadsag was a market, financial and competence issue," Fidesz press department said in a statement. "The future of Nepszabadsag was stolen by the current and past Socialist Party leadership, who were incompetent not only to govern the country but also to take care of their party's newspaper."

Leaders of the Together and Dialogue parties also spoke at the rally, where some demonstrators carried issues of Nepszabadsag and said the government's intention was to ensure that corruption and other issues potentially harmful to the government weren't covered in the media.

"After they purchase every newspaper, every media outlet, they put their own people everywhere and manipulate the whole thing," protester Lajos Vig said. "It's impossible to hear anything, to hear a true word from these newspapers."

One protester's large sign read "Our nation is in the stranglehold of politician criminals. Get out!"

Hungary's media landscape has changed considerably in the last few years, with many print and online publications as well as radio and television stations coming under the control of Orban's inner circle and showing an unquestioning pro-government bent.

Who Will Be President?

The Upshot’s elections model suggests that Hillary Clinton is favored to win the presidency, based on the latest state and national polls. A victory by Mr. Trump remains possible: Mrs. Clinton’s chance of losing is about the same as the probability that an N.F.L. kicker misses a 33-yard field goal.

From now until Election Day, we’ll update our estimates with each new poll, as well as collect the ratings of other news organizations. You can chart different paths to victory below. Here’s how our estimates have changed over time: