Clinton Plan to Join Recount Gets Sore Loser Jibe From Trump

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Bloomberg:

Hillary Clinton’s campaign lawyer announced plans to participate in vote recounts of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan if they take place, drawing a sharp response from Donald Trump’s team that the Democrat is being a “sore loser”

 

If Green Party candidate Jill Stein initiates recounts in those states as she intends, the Clinton campaign “will participate in order to ensure the process proceeds in a manner that is fair to all sides,” lawyer Marc Elias said Saturday in a post on the blogging website Medium.com. He added that he doesn’t expect the action to overturn Donald Trump’s election as president.

 

The move prompted a rejoinder from Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, now a senior adviser to the president-elect.

 

“What a pack of sore losers,” Conway said in a statement to Bloomberg. “After asking Mr. Trump and his team a million times on the trail, ‘Will HE accept the election results?’ it turns out Team Hillary and their new BFF Jill Stein can’t accept reality.”

 

“Rather than adhere to the tradition of graciously conceding and wishing the winner well, they’ve opted to waste millions of dollars and dismiss the democratic process. The people have spoken. Time to listen up. #YesYourPresident,” Conway said.

 

Stein says on her website that she’s raised more than $5.7 million for her recount effort so far, with a $7 million goal. The funds raised so far will cover costs in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.

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Sore losers gotta stick together...

[Draggingtree]

The Recount Hail Mary

 

The left may get an unexpected lesson in electoral federalism.

 

Nov. 27, 2016 5:29 p.m. ET

Remember when Democrats and the left scored Donald Trump for worrying that the election might be “rigged”? Well, now that he’s won, the same crowd is demanding recounts in three battleground states on grounds that the Russians rigged the results.

 

On Saturday what’s left of the Clinton campaign said it will join the recount effort demanded by Green Party candidate Jill Stein in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. The conspiracy theory for which they have no evidence is that Russian hackers rigged

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-recount-hail-mary-1480285772

[Draggingtree]

Hillary’s Popular Vote Holdouts on Collision Course with History

Electoral College designed by Founders to protect vulnerable Americans from the tyranny of elites

by Laura Ingraham | Updated 27 Nov 2016 at 7:57 PM

 

So let’s clarify a few points right now:

Does anyone think the Trump campaign would have largely ignored California and New York if he needed to win the popular vote? Of course not. He played under the rules as they are written in our Constitution — the same rules that governed the Clinton campaign — and he won.

2.) Now let’s look at that popular vote more closely. As of today, according to The New York Times, Hillary Clinton has 62,391,335 votes from all states. She has 1,969,920 votes from the five counties that make up New York City, and 1,893,770 votes from Los Angeles County, California. Donald Trump has 61,125,956 votes from all states, including 461,174 votes from the five counties that make up New York City, and 620,285 votes from L.A. County. In other words, Hillary beat Trump 3,863,690 to 1,081,459 in New York and L.A.; he beat her by 60,044,497 to 58,527,645 in the rest of the country. So Hillary’s margin in the popular vote rests entirely on her margin in two large cities — neither of which was contested by the Trump campaign. http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/hillarys-popular-vote-holdouts-collision-course-history/

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November 28, 2016

Hillary’s Last Gasp

By Fred Lucas

 

Hillary Clinton would have to win a clean sweep of recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania in order to overturn the election, and even her team concedes flipping one state is unlikely.

 

Nevertheless, the Clinton campaign is officially contesting the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. There is no other way to describe joining Green Party candidate Jill Stein’s effort to get recounts in the three states.

 

After the third presidential debate when Trump indicated he might not accept the outcome, Clinton said, “that is a direct threat to our democracy.” That’s when she thought she would win.

 

Clinton is seemingly a passive participant in the recount effort, but after her attacks on Trump, she couldn’t exactly go all in. That doesn’t mean Stein is a stalking horse for Clinton, but this certainly allows the former secretary of state to challenge the outcome without appearing to threaten democracy.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/11/hillarys_last_gasp_.html

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So Let Me See If I Got This Straight
Mitch Berg
Nov. 28 2016

Democrat operatives, November 7, 2016: “Our electoral system is rock solid, there is no election fraud, the results we get are impeccable, and failing to accept its results is paranoia and maybe treason.

 

Democrat operatives, November 26, 2016: “We can not accept the results of the election in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, because our election system is rife with fraud and easily hacked by…Russians”.

 

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[Draggingtree]

Clinton-Stein Recount Drive Destined for Failure

 

Hurdles are high to get recounts in all three states narrowly won by Trump and odds of overturning results are even longer

 

November 28, 2016

by Brendan Kirby | Updated 28 Nov 2016 at 3:31 PM

 

The Wisconsin Election Commission on Monday paved the way for a recount, the first of three states targeted by Jill Stein in what almost certainly amounts to little more than a vanity project — and an expensive one, at that.

 

Stein, who ran for president under the Green Party label, announced her intention last week to seek recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. On Saturday, the campaign of failed Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton said it would participate in the Wisconsin recount effort.

 

“Here we have a situation where Jill Stein, who is the person making the claims here, does not have any chance whatsoever … This is an enormous waste of time.”

 

President-elect Donald Trump won all three states narrowly, but election experts struggled to come up with a single instance in which a recount ever produced changes in the vote total that would be sufficient to switch the outcome in one of those states, let alone all three.

http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/desperate-recount-drive-show/

[Valin]

The Democrats aren’t learning from their defeat

Ed Rogers

November 29 2016

 

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Historians will argue about the significance of the popular vote for years to come, and political pundits will continue to dissect the reasons why Clinton lost the 2016 election. Instead of trying to undermine the legitimacy of the electoral college, championing a pointless recount and crying into their pillows, Democrats would be better served by taking heed of what no less than President Obama said at a White House news conference following the election: “I won Iowa not because the demographics dictated that I would win Iowa. It was because I spent 87 days going to every small town and fair and fish fry and VFW Hall… There’s some counties maybe I won, that people didn’t expect, because people had a chance to see you and listen to you and get a sense of who you stood for and who you were fighting for.” In other words, instead of worrying about the electoral college, the Democrats should start worrying about their ability to connect with middle America.

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Michigan attorney general files lawsuit to stop recount

David Wright, CNN

Dec. 2 2016

 

Washington (CNN)Michigan's attorney general announced Friday he would file suit to stop a recount requested by Green Party candidate Dr. Jill Stein.

"Today I am filing suit to stop @DrJillStein's frivolous, expensive recount request," Bill Schuette, a Republican, wrote on Twitter.

 

The state's top law enforcement official said that he had "filed an emergency motion with the Mich Supreme Court to bypass the Court of Appeals to ensure a timely process."

 

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