Trump lashes out as Clinton joins recount effort

While spending the Thanksgiving holiday at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., Trump unleashed a flurry of tweets criticizing the recount in Wisconsin and claimed that millions voted illegally, though there is no evidence of that happening.

Mr Trump said he had done so by claiming he led the count after deducting the “millions of people who voted illegally”.

Trump and his lieutenants assailed an effort – now joined by Clinton – to recount votes in up to three battleground states, calling the push fraudulent, the work of “crybabies” and, in Trump’s estimation, “sad”.

“The Green Party has the legal right to do it”, he said on CNN. Reporter: He calls the recount effort a “Green party scam to fill up their coffers”. He garnered 1,404,000 votes to 1,381,823 for the former first lady, according to the Wisconsin Election Commission. It’s a waste of everybody’s time, ‘ Priebus said of Stein. Bernie Sanders, a Clinton rival during the Democratic primary turned ally during the general election, said: “No one expects there to be profound change, but there’s nothing wrong with going through the process”. However Ms. Stein has previously stated she welcomed Mr. Trump into the recount effort, and nothing in the law prevents Mr. Trump from doing so.

Clinton is also bumping up against deadlines in the three states for the recount to proceed. If Democrats keep getting popular vote majorities, as is nearly certainly the case in future presidential elections, the great danger is that this will permanently jade voters – deepening the perception that the process is unfair, even “rigged”, – and this will badly taint the notion of what and how a true democracy should work when it comes to elections. Why add the bit about millions of people who voted illegally, something which he can not back up and which only brings up an argument (the results of the popular vote) that doesn’t matter anyway?

Stein, who won about 1 percent of the national vote, has said she wants a recount to guarantee the integrity of the US voting system, a push that came after some experts raised the possibility that hacks could have affected the results.

The minor party nominee has launched a recount effort in three swing states, saying she wants to guarantee the integrity of the U.S. voting system.

“Voter fraud is so incredibly rare that it has no impact on the integrity of our elections”, Wendy Weiser, head of the democracy program at the Brennan Center, told the AP. We’ve had free and fair elections. Recounts have generally only had an impact on the result of election when the margins are in the range of several hundred. Private meetings with outside experts involved sharing both groups concerns about the data and findings.

The Conway offensive, which began Thursday on Twitter and continued in her three appearances Sunday, led the echo chamber of opposition to the former 2012 Republican presidential nominee.

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“Wisconsin and Pennsylvania conduct post-election audits using a sampling of precincts”. MI is still up in the air with the state yet being too close to call. “This is unfortunate; it is our strong belief that, in addition to an election canvass, every state should do this basic audit to ensure accuracy and public confidence in the election”. But can Wisconsin reject Jill Stein’s recount request?