President-elect Donald Trump is claiming that he won both the Electoral College and the popular vote – and the only reason why Hillary Clinton is ahead is because of Americans voting ‘illegally.’
In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2016
In the counted popular vote, Clinton is currently beating Trump by 2.2 million votes.
He went on to say,
It would have been much easier for me to win the so-called popular vote than the Electoral College in that I would only campaign in 3 or 4–
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2016
states instead of the 15 states that I visited. I would have won even more easily and convincingly (but smaller states are forgotten)!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2016
The Daily Mail reports,
Trump, spending his last day of Thanksgiving vacation at his Mar-a-Lago resort before flying back to New York this afternoon, devoted much of his online time to tweeting about recount efforts in three Midwestern states.
Green Party candidate Jill Stein raised funds for a recount, starting in Wisconsin, and Clinton’s team said they would also participate.
Starting at 7:19 a.m. Sunday morning, Trump dashed off seven tweets about the recount efforts.
‘Hillary Clinton conceded the election when she called me just prior to the victory speech and after the results were in. Nothing will change,’ he wrote first.
He then quoted Clinton several times, including something she said about not accepting the results of the election – after Trump himself had sowed the seeds that it was going to be ‘rigged’ – during the third and final presidential debate.
‘That is horrifying. That is not the way our democracy works. Been around for 240 years. We’ve had free and fair elections. We’ve accepted the outcomes when we may not have liked them, and that is what must be expected of anyone standing on a [debate stage] during a general election. I, for one, am appalled that somebody that is the nominee of one of our two major parties would take that kind of position,’ Trump said quoting Clinton and forgetting the words ‘debate stage.’
Read more at The Daily Mail
