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Donald Trump cancels meeting with The New York Times
Posted On Nov 25 2016
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Yet a week and half before the election, Mr. Comey notified Congress that the investigation had been re-opened due to the discovery of Clinton emails on the laptop of former New York Rep. Anthony Weiner, the husband of Huma Abedin, a top aide to Mrs. Clinton.
As many as 7,143,347 votes went to third party, write-ins, or independent candidates, the data revealed.
Because some states – such as Arizona, Idaho, Michigan and Georgia – don’t have a law binding electors to the vote result phones have been swamped with calls imploring them to vote against Trump. While this isn’t the first time a president has lost the popular vote but won the Electoral College, the scale of the result is larger than in the past.
The candidate on the left leads by 2 million votes.
Clinton now has 64,227,373 votes to Trump’s 62,212,752. If not, well, Trump supporters may soon learn a lesson Clinton voters figured out a long time ago: You can’t win “em all”.
Nine other candidates shared a total of almost 30,000 additional votes in the presidential campaign in MI, the figures showed. Some activists and academics that formed a coalition are calling on USA authorities to fully audit or recount the election results, particularly in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Presidents do not dictate decisions on which criminal investigations are pursued or their outcome. February 27 interview on Fox News. The president-elect said that if he were campaigning for the most votes, instead of the Electoral College win, he would have made a push in deep-blue states like NY or California. “We need to have post-election ballot audits”.
Donald Trump secured his victory by winning previous Democratic strongholds of MI and Pennsylvania and easily secured the Electoral College 309 to 232.
Kellyanne Conway, from left, President-elect Donald Trump, New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr., and vice chairman of The New York Times Company Michael Golden appear during a meeting with editors and reporters at The New York Times building, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016 in New York.
Trump went on to joke, “I was never a fan of the Electoral College until now”. “Campaigning is much different!”
It was the second time in two decades that a Democratic candidate had garnered more votes, only to lose the presidency to the Republican challenger.
In 2000, the then Vice-President Al Gore earned about 500,000 more votes over Republican nominee George W. Bush. “We learned that was false because we ended up with what, three-something (electoral votes)”.
