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2016 Postmortem

flamingdem

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2. Trump Campaign and GOP Allies in Full Legal Panic as Recounts Could Create Electoral College Crisis

Reply to flamingdem (Original post)

Sun Dec 4, 2016, 02:03 PM

Dec 2016

* And now we have FL in "play"

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/trump-campaign-and-gop-allies-full-legal-panic-recounts-could-create-electoral-college

Republicans are panicking because the Green Party’s presidential recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania could prevent Donald Trump from receiving 270 Electoral College votes—the final hurdle to the presidency—on December 19.

In the past 24 hours, the Trump campaign and its GOP allies in the three states that gave him an apparent Electoral College victory after on November 8 have filed lawsuits and legal motions to block, delay and freeze the recounts. In the case of Michigan, where Trump’s lead is smallest, 10,704 votes, the state's Republican attorney general is arguing the recount's results should be ignored.

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Forward this to Florida friends: CALLING for Clinton voters in FLORIDA: We need you for recount! [View all] flamingdem Dec 2016 OP

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