Without evidence, Trump claims millions voted illegally and he won popular contest

Though the two issues are neither related nor causal, Conway tried to link Trump’s latest public comments about not pursuing a prosecution of Clinton to the Clinton campaign’s decision to join the recount effort.

Earlier in November, Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein confirmed to Sputnik she was running the vote recount campaign for Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and MI, where Republican contender Donald Trump won a slim victory, saying “hack-friendly” voting machines were involved. Stein also tweeted that, “Clinton + Trump: Want democracy?” He also tweeted how people should give him a “chance to lead”, now that he is president-elect. Adding, “So much time and money will be spent, same result”.

Among other things, Trump falsely asserted that illegal immigrants were tipping the results in elections, based on a misinterpretation of disputed data.

Donald Trump has claimed he would have won the United States popular vote were it not for the “millions of people who voted illegally” amid claims over the legitimacy of his election victory. The main concern is that a foreign power such as Russian Federation could have hacked key voting systems and tampered with the results of the vote.

Clinton leads the national popular vote by close to 2 million votes, but Trump won 290 electoral votes to Clinton’s 232, not counting MI.

Ms Stein won more than 30,000 votes in the state.

In a tweet-storm Sunday morning, Trump attacked the Green Party-backed efforts to recount the vote in the key states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania this weekend, calling the effort “sad, ‘ while criticizing the Clinton campaign’s participation in the effort”.

In his post, Elias also stressed, however, that the campaign’s own analysts hadn’t come across evidence of irregularities.

Ms. Stein, the Green Party’s nominee for president, said this week that she would be pushing for statewide recounts in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, citing the work of a prominent computer scientist who suggested a theoretical way that vote tallies could have been hacked or manipulated.

The first state in Stein’s crosshairs is Wisconsin, and she’s already filed a petition to fund a recount with the state’s elections commission. She has vowed to do the same in Pennsylvania and MI, raising more than $4 million to fund the trio of do-overs. His Michigan margin was a hair’s breadth 0.22 percent of the state’s votes. “(The recount) is all about being a sore loser, especially given the admission that the gaps in all three states are too large to overcome”. “During that process, we have seen Secretary Clinton’s vote total grow, so that, today, her national popular vote lead now exceeds more than 2 million votes”. On Saturday, the Clinton campaign said they would participate in that and any other recount the Stein campaign facilitates, but stressed that they had evaluated the concerns and available evidence of any manipulation of the vote in those states and ultimately concluded that the matter wasn’t worth pursuing.

The Badger State’s recount is up against a ticking clock, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, facing a December 13 deadline. The fact is that the pre-election projected vote differentials between Trump and Clinton were skewed heavily toward the Democrats.

“The system has strong local control coupled with state oversight, resting on the partnership between the Wisconsin Elections Commission, the 72 county clerks, and the 1,854 municipal clerks”, he said. “I’m moving on myself”, Rep Tim Ryan (R-Ohio), who is running for his party’s leadership position in the House, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press”. The recounts are not expected to change the results of the election.