Hill: Elex nix OK

Won’t ‘rule it out’

Hillary Clinton just can’t face the fact that Donald Trump is in the White House and she’s not.

Ten months after her stunning defeat in the 2016 presidential election, the Democratic nominee held out the possibility of challenging the results if there’s solid proof of Russian interference beyond what has already been made public.

“I wouldn’t rule it out,” Clinton told National Public Radio on Monday.

That seemed to floor interviewer Terry Gross.

“So what are the means? Like, this is totally unprecedented in every way,” Gross said, grasping for a follow-up. “It is,” replied Clinton. But when asked how she would file such a challenge, Clinton was stumped.

“I don’t know if there’s any legal, constitutional way to do that,” she admitted.

“There are scholars, academics, who have arguments that it would be, but I don’t think they’re on strong ground. But people are making those arguments. I just don’t think we have a mechanism,” she said.

Clinton got 3 million more popular votes than Trump but lost the presidency in the Electoral College, an institution she said should be eliminated.

“I do believe we should abolish the Electoral College, because I was sitting listening to a report on the French election and the French political analyst said, ‘You know, in our country the person with the most votes wins, unlike in yours.’ And I think that’s an anachronism. I’ve said that since 2000,” she told NPR.

Clinton insisted that if the roles were reversed, she would still be pushing for a full probe of Russia’s involvement.