Trump claims ‘serious’ fraud
PRESIDENT-ELECT Donald Trump made unsubstantiated allegations on Sunday of serious US voter fraud and said “millions of people” had cast their ballots illegally, of fer i ng no ev idence for t he assertions he put forth on Twitter.
Trump’s shock path to the White House saw him fall short of his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in the popular vote – she carried the election by 2.2 million ballots – but win the all-important Electoral College count, which decides the US presidency.
The Republican billionaire’s latest statements, in which he said he would have won the popular vote were it not for the “millions of people who voted i l lega l ly”, ca me as steps a re being taken towards recounting votes in the state of Wisconsin, which Trump won.
Trump and his aides have pushed back hard against that recount, with the president-elect letting loose a series of tweets in which he quoted Clinton about the need to respect the electoral process. But by the end of the day, Trump was alleging on Twitter that: “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.”
Although Trump had warned before the election that the result might be “rigged”, he had offered no such complaint after his unexpected November 8 victory – until now.
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