Clinton leads US president-elect Trump by over 2 million in popular votes

The election results have also bolstered plenty of criticism of the Electoral College itself, with many people, including Trump, suggesting they’d prefer to see the process rely on the popular vote. “Quite honestly, Mr. Trump is not the president-elect”, said Polly Baca, an elector from Colorado, noting that Trump is not technically president-elect until the electoral votes have been compiled by the Electoral College.

“The Founding Fathers created the Electoral College as the last line of defense, and I think we must do all that we can to ensure that we have a Reasonable Republican candidate who shares our American values”, DailyNews cited him as saying. Trump, in an interview with the New York Times, took a more compassionate tone toward the Democratic presidential nominee than during his campaign, when he talked about a possible criminal investigation of the opponent he dubbed “Crooked Hillary” if he won the White House.

Trump also made putting Hillary Clinton in prison for supposed criminal activities a main rally point in his campaign, always getting a rousing chant of “lock her up” from his enormous crowds.

The Republican President-elect told The New York Times on Tuesday that perhaps humans are to blame for the rising temperatures that are melting polar ice caps and have been linked to extreme weather around the world.

In 2000, vice president Al Gore lost to George W. Bush despite winning almost 544,000 more votes than his Republican rival. That happened because the Electoral College actually selects the President, not the voting public who elect members of the Electoral College who are pledged to vote for their candidate but are not required to do so.

Two million votes and counting as Hillary’s lead in the popular vote increases or will a re-count make any difference for America?

Clinton and her operatives went into the race predicting her biggest problems would be inevitability and her age, trying to succeed a two-term president of her own party.

Trump won the election on November 8 by earning 306 electoral votes nationwide, compared to Clinton’s 232 electoral votes. That you are no different than the swamp you want to drain. You’re not going to do it now, overnight, with populism in vogue, via an electoral college stocked with nobodies and political cronies. He predicted his supporters would not be disappointed because the Trump administration would “save our country” in other ways.

Some media organizations did not call a victor of the presidential race in MI on election night because of the closeness of the race.

That would be civic dynamite. They succumb to dictatorship when a large, angry faction of the population throws its support behind a handful of bad individuals and supports them in ruthlessly seizing power.

“Three thousand votes are all that separate Clinton and Trump in New Hampshire”.

Some Democrats have called for an end to the Electoral College but the U.S. Constitution authorised it and smaller states would likely block its abolition. Pick a position. Do you want an establishment bulwark against populist candidates or don’t you?