Robby Mook: Trump benefited from Russia ‘intervening in the election’

Saturday’s court filing to withdraw the case said the Green Party-backed voters who filed it “are regular citizens of ordinary means” and can not afford the $1 million bond ordered by the court by 5 p.m. Monday.

Utah may be a different story, however, and that hinges largely on the performance of independent anti-Trump candidate Evan McMullin. “You think this woman who has nothing in common with anybody?”

“I would rather lose than win the way you guys did”, she said, noting how the billionaire’s campaign chief executive, Stephen K. Bannon, was an alleged racist.

“In counties decimated by trade deals, decades of talking points don’t pay the bills”, said Robert Becker, who ran Vermont Sen. American voters of all demographic groups like candidates who court them and ask for their votes, and do not like candidates who they only see a few weeks before the election. Addressing the Americans who did not vote for Trump, Conway said that they now “can’t get past the grief, denial and anger stages and into the acceptance stages”, which she said “really defies what Secretary Clinton and President Obama themselves had said” about coming together as a nation. His 306 electoral votes smashed the Democratic belief that the demographics of the political map meant the GOP would struggle to win presidential elections.

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Conway added that Clinton “had a 47 percent problem of her own”, meaning Clinton was unable to surpass 47 percent in states like MI that Obama carried with more than half the vote. Right from the start, Stephanopoulos parroted the same argument Clinton’s team has been using, that Trump needed to heal the divide in America because he lost the popular vote. Aides argued that FBI director James Comey’s investigation, media coverage, the hacking of Democratic email accounts, gender bias and even Clinton’s personal penchant for privacy and policy were to blame for her defeat.

“There were a lot of headwinds in this race”, he said.

Hillary Clinton’s senior campaign strategist did not mince his words Thursday when confronted by top staffers of President-elect Donald Trump: He doesn’t have a voter mandate.

Utah didn’t suffer the worst polling breakdown – in Tennessee and West Virginia, for example, the polls were off the mark by more than 14 points, and in South Dakota they were almost as bad. Founded in 1846, AP has covered all the major news events of the past 165 years, providing high-quality, informed reporting of everything from wars and elections to championship games and royal weddings.

The decision came two days before a state court hearing was scheduled in the case. “You guys took everything Donald Trump said so literally”, Lewandowski said.

Emotions are still quite raw, especially from the Clinton side. Stein previously asked for recounts of the votes in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

The president-elect crowed: “We didn’t break it, we shattered that sucker. I was not surprised there would be a feisty program”, Schultz said. They said they faced huge headwinds within the electorate because of the strong desire for change: “We underestimated the force of that wind of change”, Mook said.