Green Party To Take Pennsylvania Recount To Federal Court
The Green Party refused to back down in its efforts to initiate a state-wide recount in Pennsylvania. The campaign announced late Saturday it is switching its strategy in the swing state, seeking the help of federal courts instead of state courts. The campaign announced it would seek an emergency federal court order Monday, hours after […]
Stop Donald Trump Petition Receives 4.7 Million Signatures
A petition to elect Hillary Clinton as president and keep Donald Trump from being sworn in as commander in chief is winning over the internet. Trump won 306 electoral votes to Clinton’s 232, but she is the popular vote winner, with 65,259,681 votes to his 62,692,056.
Everything to Know About Clinton-Backed Recount Effort
President-elect Donald Trump went on a tweetstorm Sunday morning, quoting Hillary Clinton’s debate promise to accept the election results a day after her campaign agreed to support efforts to recount votes in Wisconsin, an effort his transition team labeled a “scam.” Razor-thin margins in key battleground states delivered the election for Trump, who stands at […]
Trump Calls Vote Recount Efforts a ‘Scam’ as Clinton Team Joins Wisconsin Effort
President-elect Donald Trump has called efforts by the Green Party to force recounts in three swing states a “scam,” as his former Democratic rival’s campaign joined the recount efforts in the Midwestern swing state of Wisconsin. “This is a scam by the Green Party for an election that has already been conceded, and the results […]
Trump Wins Michigan With 10,704 Votes
It’s been more than two weeks since the 2016 presidential election, but the final results from Michigan are in: Donald Trump won by 10,704 votes. It’s the first time a Republican candidate won the state since George H. W. Bush in 1988. While former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton won the popular vote with more than […]
Hillary Clinton Urged To Demand Recount In 3 States
A group of computer scientists and election attorneys are urging Democrat Hillary Clinton to call for a recount in three swing states where President-elect Donald Trump won, New York Magazine reported Tuesday. The group, which includes voting-rights attorney John Bonifaz and J. Alex Halderman, the director of the University of Michigan Center for Computer Security […]
Trump: I’d love to make Israel-Palestine peace deal
Incoming US president could appoint son-in-law to broker a deal between the two parties after taking over. US President-elect Donald Trump has said he would “love” to reach a peace deal between Israel and Palestine, adding that he would appoint his son-in-law as a Middle East envoy and help broker a deal after he takes […]
Register Muslims? Then we must all be Muslim | Moran
Would President Trump really try to establish a national registry of American Muslims? It is obscene that he and his supporters have raised the possibility, and beyond disheartening that Trump has failed to put the idea to rest by clearly denouncing it. If this is trial balloon, here’s an answer: Every American of good faith […]
Debunking Arguments in Favor of the Electoral College
This article originally appeared on The Conversation. In November 2000, newly elected New York Senator Hillary Clinton promised that when she took office in 2001, she would introduce a constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College, the 18th-century, state-by-state, winner-take-all system for selecting the president. She never pursued her promise—a decision that must haunt her […]
How Europe’s far-right feasts on Trump’s victory
As the consequences of Donald Trump’s victory are assessed around the world, there are reasons to be very afraid in Europe. Among the first to celebrate the race-baiting, misogynist authoritarian’s election as the next United States president was Europe’s populist far-right. Marine Le Pen of the National Front (FN) in France tweeted her congratulations and […]