Wisconsin officials to set timeline for presidential recount

President-elect Donald Trump won a convincing electoral vote victory on November 8, but he is claiming falsely that widespread voter fraud cost him the popular vote.

Trump and his aides have offered no evidence concerning the claims, nor did Trumpexplain why he would oppose the nascent Wisconsin recount if illegal voting was such a serious problem.

Mr Trump said he had done so by claiming he led the count after deducting the “millions of people who voted illegally”. The two parties are already locked in fights over ballot access, with Republicans advocating ID requirements and other limitations that Democrats say are aimed at suppressing the votes of minorities and others more likely to vote Democratic.

Trump was expected to return to NY on Sunday after spending the Thanksgiving holiday weekend at his West Palm Beach estate.

Candidates include former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and Tennessee Senator Bob Corker.

For her part, Stein, who garnered about 1 percent of the national vote, said she’s challenging the results to ensure confidence in the USA election system and to make sure that hackers didn’t sway the vote in Wisconsin.

His campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, speaking Sunday on ABC News, called the recount effort “ridiculously fantastical” and questioned why Clinton would not accept the results. “Nothing will change”, he tweeted.

He then cites her concession speech, in which she had said, “We have to accept the results and look to the future”, after it was clear that Trump had won the electoral college. “That is a direct threat to our democracy”.

In the past week, Clinton’s campaign has said it will join in recount efforts in the state of Wisconsin started by Green Party nominee Jill Stein.

But now he’s questioning whether Clinton campaign lawyer Marc Elias is backing down from that deal by announcing Clinton will participate in a recount in Wisconsin and may do the same in MI and Pennsylvania.

At 3:30 p.m. on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, when most people were enjoying the final hours of peace before returning to work from the holiday, Donald Trump raged like a toddler being dragged around the supermarket about his popular vote loss.

The US government has said Russian state actors were behind hacks on the Democratic National Committee, a claim denied by Moscow. His transition team said the president-elect had scheduled a series of meetings Monday with prospective administration hires.

Trump supporters were infuriated in March when the former MA governor delivered a passionately worded attack on Trump on the part of the Republican Party’s establishment, calling him a “fraud”, given to “absurd third-grade theatrics”.

“That is a hard deadline and if a state were to miss that deadline, it would be technically in jeopardy of not having its electoral votes counted”, he said.

Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Cleveland, Ohio. This is a massive undertaking infrastructurally, it’s worth noting, requiring reaching out to individual counties in every state. I would have been in California, I would have been in Texas, Florida and NY, and we wouldn’t have gone anywhere else.

Trump’s incoming chief of staff, GOP Chairman Reince Priebus, acknowledged that a Romney pick would represent “a team of rivals concept”. There are several Cabinet positions still open, including Secretary of State.

The debate about who is fit for Secretary of State has played out mostly behind closed doors.