Donald Trump’s presidential transition

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Sanders is hardly the only Democrat to call for a change in the Electoral College system following Trump’s upset win over Clinton.

But over the weekend, Hillary Clinton’s campaign advisor, Marc Elias, said the campaign would join Stein’s recount efforts in Wisconsin, which had 10 electoral votes.

Still, Trump and his lieutenants assailed the effort led by the Green Party’s Jill Stein, calling it fraudulent, the work of “crybabies” and, in Trump’s view, tweeted from Florida, “sad”.

As the recount proceeds in Wisconsin, Hillary Clinton’s legal team will participate, citing concerns from supporters over the integrity of the vote, though the campaign says it has not seen any evidence to support those concerns.

Ms Stein is also pushing for a recount in MI.

Clinton would need to take all three states in order to change the outcome of the race. Trump won around 100,000 more votes than Clinton in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania collectively, including over 64,000 votes in Pennsylvania alone. His Michigan margin was a hair’s breadth 0.22 percent of the state’s votes.

Stein, the Green Party’s presidential candidate, reportedly raised over $2.6 million, surpassing her original $2.5 million goal on Thursday night.

“Has anyone wondered why no other campaign has requested a recount with so many questionable results?” It will have to be completed by December 13, in compliance with federal law that requires any recounts to be finished 35 days after the election.

The Electoral College system for choosing presidents has been controversial since the nation’s founding, but never more than now and nowhere more than in California.

Donald Trump has claimed without evidence that “millions” voted illegally in the presidential election and said it was rigged even as he prepares to enter the White House. The claim apparently began with one person on Twitter and was picked up by the fringe Alex Jones site Infowars. In addition to the roughly 64.1 million votes that have been counted for Clinton so far, another 7.1 million have been counted for third-party. candidates.

CAS senior and President of College Democrats Michael Deluca said the recount would highlight evident issues in this year’s election, such as fake news, hacking and cybercrimes.

“The Kremlin probably expected that publicity surrounding the disclosures that followed the Russian government-directed compromises of emails from US persons and institutions, including from USA political organizations, would raise questions about the integrity of the election process that could have undermined the legitimacy of the president-elect”, the White House statement read.

“While Cuba remains a totalitarian island, it is my hope that today marks a move away from the horrors endured for too long, and toward a future in which the wonderful Cuban people finally live in the freedom they so richly deserve”, Trump said.