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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon Dec 12, 2016, 02:49 PM Dec 2016

Trump facing two-front legitimacy war

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES
12 DEC 2016 AT 11:41 ET

December 12, 2016
Greg Price

Less than a month away from taking the Oath of Office, President-elect Donald Trump is facing a two-front war on his legitimacy to power. The Republican upstart, who defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton in the Electoral College 306-232, has seen his former opponent’s lead in the popular vote swell and swell ever since Election Day on Nov. 8, and is now mired in controversy over whether Russia’s government hacked the election to insure a Trump victory.

The latest popular vote totals Monday, as reported by nonpartisan election analysis group The Cook Report, show Clinton garnering 65,746,544 votes compared to Trump’s 62,904,682, a difference of more than 2.8 million votes. In percentages, Clinton’s locked down a plurality of 48.2 percent of the vote and Trump 46.2 percent.

Clinton, who was angling to be the first women ever elected to the White House, has gradually seen her popular vote advantage climb each day since the election and her loss has not only drummed up traditional cries to do away with the Constitutionally-mandated Electoral College but even stirred up three lawsuits by state electors who are refusing to file their vote for Trump. Last week on Thursday, Clinton had 65,527,625 votes to Trump’s 62,851,436 votes, a difference of over 2.6 million.

Trump has taken to Twitter to denounce talk over Clinton’s popular vote lead, and claimed in November he would’ve won the popular vote had it not been for “millions of people who voted illegally,” an accusation he’s yet to offer proof of.

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http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/trump-facing-two-front-legitimacy-war/

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Trump facing two-front legitimacy war (Original Post) DonViejo Dec 2016 OP
Again,we see Trump go Bully on his detractors, Wellstone ruled Dec 2016 #1
OT: we can take that "millions of people voted illegally" too and run with it meow2u3 Dec 2016 #2
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
1. Again,we see Trump go Bully on his detractors,
Mon Dec 12, 2016, 03:06 PM
Dec 2016

nothing new,no one in the Media has the Edward R. Morrow to take this A----hole down. This whole thing was well organized and funded with contingency plans in place to counter any Politician who might want to be a hero.

Until Obama asks Lynch to kick some ass and take some names,this is a futile cause.

meow2u3

(24,761 posts)
2. OT: we can take that "millions of people voted illegally" too and run with it
Mon Dec 12, 2016, 03:20 PM
Dec 2016

Only we can say that contrary to what Tramp thought, it wasn't brown people voting illegally, but Eastern Europeans getting away with voting illegally and under the radar in states like PA, WI, and MI because they were white. No repig would ever suspect Russian and Polish undocumented immigrants illegally voting for tRump.

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