Clinton’s popular vote lead hits two million

“I’ll see every once in a while someone says, ‘Well, the popular vote'”.

In an unprecedented turn of events, Hillary Clinton’s lead in the popular vote has just surpassed two million votes.

This actually happened three times in the 1800s and now it has happened twice in the last 16 years.

They believe that if they can recruit enough electoral college members to refuse to vote according to the state-by-state results, they can raise significant questions about the college itself.

Trump went on to joke, “I was never a fan of the Electoral College until now”.

Agroup of computer scientist and election lawyers think Hillary Clinton should seek a recount because of possible hacking or manipulation of votes, NY magazine reported earlier.

Republican President-elect Donald Trump defeated Democratic rival Hillary Clinton by 10,704 votes in the state of MI, according to certified unofficial county-by-county results released on Wednesday by the MI secretary of state. Merely complaining to your friends won’t help. In 2000, then-Vice President Al Gore won the popular vote but lost to former President George W. Bush.

The state will officially certify Trump the victor Monday.

For 2016 multiplying the percentage of votes each candidate received {in each state} times the number of electoral votes {in each state} results in the following: Clinton 256.985 and Trump 253.482. And by Wasserman’s count, Trump beat Clinton in 13 key swing states by a 48.5%-to-46.6% margin.

The Stein campaign has raised more than $2 million to pay for the recounts and is now trying to raise $4.5 million.

The source said the final numbers were so close that Clinton might not have placed her call to Trump without a push.

The group is lobbying their Republican counterparts to turn on the billionaire, denying him the 270 electoral votes necessary for the presidency.

“The Electoral College is a disaster for democracy”, Trump tweeted after President Obama’s reelection in 2012. Some states do not mandate which way their electors must vote, however.

In an interview with CNN on Sunday, Sanders argued that U.S. election is “weird” as the now president elect has over two million less support than his contender.