Donald Trump lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton, and it wasn't all that close. (photo: AP)
28 November 16
The president-elect baselessly claimed that millions of voters were illegal.
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are many things Donald Trump can say about this month’s election after
beating expectations and claiming enough electoral votes to seize the
White House.
One thing he can’t: that he won a majority of votes.
Despite a comfortable win in the electoral college, Trump is trailing Hillary Clinton in the popular vote by more than two million votes, a margin that is only growing.
But on Sunday, Donald Trump claimed on Twitter that he
had in fact won the popular vote because “millions” of votes were cast
illegally.
Donald Trump presented no evidence to support his outlandish claim, and that’s because none exists. There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud
in this or any presidential election, and certainly not on the order of
“millions of people.” One of the only documented cases of actual voter
fraud in this election came when a Trump supporter tried to vote for him twice.
Hillary Clinton’s lead in the popular vote has grown
significantly since Election Day as large states like California
continue to tally their votes. Her margin of victory now stands at more than two million votes, by far the largest gap by a presidential candidate who lost the election.
Trump supporters have pointed to fake news websites like InfoWars, which claimed that Clinton’s popular vote win was the result of three million illegal votes by undocumented immigrants and dead people. During the campaign, Trump himself repeatedly tweeted memes and fake stories from white supremacist websites as fact.
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