US President-elect Donald Trump has asserted he won the popular vote on 8 November “if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally”.<\/p>\n
The Republican, who won the all-important electoral college count, offered no evidence to back his claim.<\/p>\n
It comes after the camp of Democratic rival Hillary Clinton said it would support a vote recount in Wisconsin initiated by a Green Party candidate.<\/p>\n
Mrs Clinton won about two million votes more than Mr Trump in the popular vote.<\/p>\n
However, Mr Trump surpassed the required 270 electoral votes to win the presidency. This was based on the state-by-state contests.<\/p>\n
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In a tweet, he wrote: “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.”<\/p>\n
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In his follow-up tweets, the Republican wrote: “It would have been much easier for me to win the so-called popular vote than in the Electoral College in that I would only campaign in 3 or 4 states instead of the 15 states that I visited.”<\/p>\n
“I would have won even more easily and convincingly (but smaller states are forgotten)!”<\/p>\n
Mr Trump also alleged “serious voter fraud” in Virginia, New Hampshire and California – states won by Mrs Clinton – accusing US media of not reporting on that issue.<\/p>\n
Is there any evidence of illegal votes?<\/p>\n
Donald Trump offered no evidence himself<\/p>\n
Claim was started by self-styled conservative voter fraud specialist Greg Phillips who tweeted “Number of non-citizen votes exceeds 3 million”<\/p>\n
Mr Phillips declined to release any evidence<\/p>\n
His tweets were picked up by right-wing websites like Infowars.com, which has made false claims in the past<\/p>\n
Fact-checking website Snopes.com says there is “zero evidence” that “illegal aliens” voted in election<\/p>\n
Earlier on Sunday, the president-elect reminded his Democratic rival that she had already admitted defeat, and published remarks from the presidential debates in which she had urged an acceptance of the poll results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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