Hillary Clinton’s
campaign lawyer announced plans to 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.”
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 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.
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