SOURCE: Bloomberg.com
Hillary Clinton’s campaign will participate in vote recounts of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan if they take place, drawing a rebuke from Donald Trump’s team that the Democrat is being a “sore loser” and part of a “ridiculous” effort.
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,” Clinton campaign 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 Trumps election.
Trump focused on Stein, not Clinton, in a response. “The people have spoken and the election is over, and as Hillary Clinton herself said on election night, in addition to her conceding by congratulating me, ‘We must accept this result and then look to the future,”’ he said in a statement.
Kellyanne Conway, who was Trump’s campaign manager and is now a senior adviser, was less conciliatory. “What a pack of sore losers,” she said in a statement. “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.
‘Fill Her Coffers’
Trump noted he had won 306 electoral votes on Nov. 8, to Clinton’s 232, the best showing for a Republican since 1988, and the most counties since 1984.
“This recount is just a way for Jill Stein, who received less than one percent of the vote overall and wasn’t even on the ballot in many states, to fill her coffers with money, most of which she will never even spend on this ridiculous recount,” he said. “All three states were won by large numbers of voters, especially Pennsylvania, which was won by more than 70,000 votes.”
Stein said 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, she said.
“This is a scam by the Green Party for an election that has already been conceded, and the results of this election should be respected instead of being challenged and abused, which is exactly what Jill Stein is doing,” Trump added.
No ‘Actionable’ Evidence
The Democrat’s campaign didn’t plan to initiate the recounts on its own because it hasn’t found “any actionable evidence of hacking or outside attempts to alter the voting technology,” Elias wrote.
A senior administration official, meanwhile, said in a statement that the government didn’t observe any increased level of malicious cyber activity aimed at disrupting the election on election day and believes the elections were free and fair from a cybersecurity perspective.
Elias also isn’t expecting the recounts to erase what he said was a 107,000 combined vote margin separating the candidates in the three battleground states and overturning the election of Trump, who is due to be sworn in as president in January.
Obligation to Voters
“We do so fully aware that the number of votes separating Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in the closest of these states — Michigan — well exceeds the largest margin ever overcome in a recount,“ Elias said. “But regardless of the potential to change the outcome in any of the states, we feel it is important, on principle, to ensure our campaign is legally represented in any court proceedings and represented on the ground in order to monitor the recount process itself.”
Elias said there is also an obligation to the voters now that a recount is planned in Wisconsin and potentially the other two states. The Wisconsin Elections Commission said Friday that it had received Stein’s petition.
Donald McGahn, who on Friday was selected by Trump as White House counsel, will be the Republican’s point person on the Wisconsin recount. He joined senior staff officials in briefings on Saturday regarding the latest developments, according to a person familiar with the Trump transition process who wasn’t authorized to speak on the record.
“We believe we have an obligation to the more than 64 million Americans who cast ballots for Hillary Clinton to participate in ongoing proceedings to ensure that an accurate vote count will be reported,” Elias said.
Foreign Interference
The 2016 election cycle “was unique in the degree of foreign interference witnessed throughout the campaign,” Elias said, noting that the U.S. government had concluded Russian state actors were behind hacks of the Democrat National Committee and the personal e-mails of some Clinton campaign officials.
“We have quietly taken a number of steps in the last two weeks to rule in or out any possibility of outside interference in the vote tally in these critical battleground states,” he said, including having data scientists and lawyers comb over the results, and monitoring and staffing post-election canvasses.
The non-partisan Cook Political Report shows Clinton ahead in the nationwide popular vote by about 2.2 million votes, 64.6 million to 62.4 million. In 13 swing states Trump received almost 22.2 million votes to Clinton’s 21.3 million.
I wish she’d join Castro already.
Don’t you know Bill Clinton’s life must be a living hell right now. I wouldn’t doubt it if he’s behind this just to keep that bitch off of his back. HAHAHA! He’s burning up the phones calling in favors. I can here Bill now. “Um, look man. You gotta help me get out here. She’s breaking all of the furniture and it’s scaring the prostitutes. Just do the recount please”!
Is Stein scrambling because of all the hate and threats she is getting from her butt-hurt liberal comrades for pulling precious votes away from the satanic witch?
I doubt it, but who knows. What is odd here is that you would think the last thing the clinton camp would want is anyone looking too closely at the ballots. All the illegals and dead people voting for her is probably not something they want to come out.
Just stirring things up to gain support for her (her people) attacking the electoral college to change their voting.
Death threats if they vote Trump regardless of the State’s win or loss and probably bribery and such going on somewhere on top of it.
Wish there was a way to audit the votes to verify all of them were actual and legitimate votes (they weren’t but how many weren’t is unknown).
I’m not sure there is anything that can be done about fraudulent voting now outside of counting all of them again without regard to their validity.
There were way too many people watching the vote counting, I don’t think there is any significant discrepancy there. Stirring the leftist side up about it plays into several developing agenda’s though, that can used to cause all kinds of havoc and conflict in the future. The left is not going to accept a loss on this.
Mr. McGuire: I just want to say one word to you. Just one word.
Benjamin: Yes, sir.
Mr. McGuire: Are you listening?
Benjamin: Yes, I am.
Mr. McGuire: Optics.
Benjamin: Exactly how do you mean?
Mrs. Robinson, if you don’t mind my saying so, this election is getting a little strange.
Mr. McCleery: You aren’t one of those agitators, are you?
Benjamin: What?
Mr. McCleery: I hate ’em. I won’t stand for it.
It got strange here in the hills too. Some closet (outhouse) Hillary supporters started an ugly mess. Who knew some of these rich people from the cities with their fine country homes were really a bunch of Libtards?
Well… since Bernie got his I guess Jill Stein wants a lake house too.
PA is under jurisdiction of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. If the recount in PA overturns the election results – no matter how heavy-handed and bogus the efforts to overturn are – it could be decided by the democrat-dominated 3rd Circuit. A 4-4 SCOTUS couldn’t overturn. That’s why they did the “wet works” operation – which I’m sure didn’t refer to a pool party in the Hamptons. Flip PA and they only need 18 rogue electors. Long shot? Sure. Impossible? No.
Ginsburg will have to recuse herself after her earlier Trump comments. Otherwise it’s all out civil war.
Don’t expect that to happen.
Either one, Ginsburg or Civil War.
I believe the purpose of the recount is to foment violence. The progressives know they have lost the election, but they have too much invested to relinquish any control. Keep Soros’ mobs frothing at the mouth is the whole purpose. Violence will keep ramping up until the inauguration, it is their last hope since they could not pull off their election con and install the Hildebeast! Just a warning!
The scary thought is that it looked like there was some kind of understanding between Trump and Hildebeast. If she doesn’t stir any trouble Trump will forego any criminal actions against her. The fact that she reneged on this may indicate that lib- fascists have high level of confidence in their ruse to steal elections. I think this country is in a big trouble.
Chill, Anon. Trump has already been declared the wiener. This is just more bullshit to de-legitimize his victory. Of course, Ryan was also blowing smoke when he claimed Trump has a mandate. Not.
If you think Stuck is tired of the analysis now, wait until after the inauguration. Melania will force Trump to move the White House to New York so she doesn’t have to mingle with the low class congressmen and their women.
And I don’t blame her! Consider the Podesta bros, (pizza aside),
and the history there. Who would ever want them walking around
with their freak vibes. Congresspeople? I would not shake hands
with any of them…their hands stink, any way you cut it.
Backdoor dimocrat shit. Give Jill baby little cash for the effort.
Unicock, El Stucko is the only one who is allowed to post an article and then go to the movies.
You, Sir, are guilty of gross neglect. You have to stay and babysit your article.
Sometimes, like fine wine, it’s good to let it “breathe”.
Interesting perspectives and great comments so far…
Hitler finds out Hillary lost.
The pic of billary reminds me of a classic line from a classic movie,”Put on the fucking glasses!”
Nothing is going to happen for Hildebeast in PA unless all judges are bought there.
I wish the lot of them would just vaporize already.
h/tip KaD
The rigged voting machines did not vote for Hillary properly and really worked? We all knew the Obama/Soros dictatorship would not go down without a fight.
I think the rigged machines worked, they just didn’t calculate the number of votes needed to be changed correctly.
For instance, to make a poll result look “randomly” manipulated when using an electronic counter, you would need a “random” way of altering Trump votes toward Hillary. So, you would have to cast every xth, yst, and nth ballot for Hillary, without knowing whether they were votes for her already. Therefore, a lot of error exists in the values chosen for x, y and n. If you pick those variables based on incorrect POLLING data made up by your sycophants to keep you from throwing a tantrum and hitting them with a $950,000 bottle of champagne, then even more error is introduced. Enough to make sure that your theft of an election using voting machine counts FAILS because you are too stupid to hire competent people to code the cheat.
The left must want to kick in doors vaccinate and take away gun rights real bad.