Clinton’s popular vote lead breaks 2 million

The statements could mark a softening in Trump’s position on United States involvement in efforts to fight climate change, although he did not commit to specific action in any direction.

The Clinton campaign has not called for a recount, nor has the Democratic National Committee.

Pending recounts, Trump looks to have 306 electoral votes, so at least 37 electors from pro-Trump states would have to switch to Clinton to bring Trump under the 270 required for election.

“I don’t know how many more times Donald Trump can make his position clear”, RNC communications director Sean Spicer told CNN.

USA 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has garnered 64,223,958 tallied votes by Wednesday morning, over 2 million more votes than President-elect Donald Trump, according to data released by the nonpartisan Cook Political Report.

Since the election, as legal analysts questioned the propriety of threatening a political opponent with a White House-authorized investigation, Trump has sent signals he would not pursue anything against Clinton or her husband, former President Bill Clinton.

But some of his conservative supporters strongly disagreed.

But the real challenge for Trump will be the less formal check provided by a free and independent press.

Comey’s second letter, sent three days before the election, stated that the Federal Bureau of Investigation maintained its July recommendation not to charge Clinton.

The Clinton Foundation charity has also been scrutinised for donations it received, but there has been no evidence that foreign donors obtained favours from the State Department while Clinton headed it.

Trump also said he saw no potential conflicts of interest between his new job and his worldwide businesses, and he disavowed praise and support from extremist “alt-right” groups. But Bookbinder added that this would not be illegal, even if true, because “conflict of interest laws don’t apply to the president”. She is roughly 30,000 votes behind Donald J. Trump in the key swing states of MI and Wisconsin – a combined gap that is narrowing. In 2000, Democrat Al Gore got 500,000 more votes than Republican George W. Bush, but came up short in the Electoral College due to a hotly contested race in Florida. Bookbinder said this looks like an admission of a possible “conflict of interest where you had a meeting that was of political and global significance in terms of working out issues important to the US, and in the course of that meeting, the president-elect appears to be talking about his business interests”. Adviser Conway signaled to congressional Republicans earlier Tuesday that they should abandon their years of vigorous probes of Clinton’s email practices and her actions at the time of the terror attacks in Benghazi, Libya.

If electors don’t vote according to the popular vote they are called “faithless electors” and may be fined or have their vote disqualified and they’ll be replaced by a substitute elector.

The reality is, the President of the United States DOES NOT and can not legally prosecute anyone.

Carson, a retired surgeon who met with Trump on Tuesday, will think about it over the Thanksgiving holiday, Williams said.