Clinton is ahead of Trump on 2 million votes

Photo: twitter / Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton

Despite the defeat in the US presidential election, Hillary Clinton increased the lead over Donald Trump in the total number of votes cast for her. As the voting results are processed, the Clinton gap from Trump is already 2 million votes.

The presidential election held on November 8 was won by Republican nominee Donald Trump. Since the voting results are calculated by state, Trump won the majority of the electoral college. His inauguration will take place in January.

However, the counting of the total number of votes cast for candidates in the last election is still ongoing.

Trump had received 62,2 million votes as of Thursday, compared with 64,2 million for his rival Clinton, according to the Cook Political Report.

This is the fifth time in US history when a candidate who has received more votes in the whole country loses the presidential election.

In 2000, Democrat Al Gore, who lost the election to George W. Bush and tried to challenge the voting results in court, got thousands of votes more than his rival at 544.

As a result, the outcome of the elections was then decided by the Supreme Court, which ruled that Bush had won in Florida, because of the vote in which the dispute arose.

This year, Clinton managed to get more votes in Californite, but Donald Trump was able to enlist the support of most of the so-called vacillating states, which ultimately determine the outcome of the vote.

Photo: donaldjtrump.com

The US electoral system is structured in such a way that the president is not chosen by the entire country, but by each state individually. As a result, the system is more favorable to those candidates who win, albeit with a modest margin, in a large number of states than to those who are winning a crushing victory, but only in a few densely populated states.

Opponents of the elected president are trying to use a numerical superiority of votes in favor of Hillary Clinton in order to cast doubt on both Trump's victory and the electoral college system itself.

Meanwhile, a group of computer science advocates and lawyers who support Clinton are trying to initiate an investigation following a vote in 3 states to ensure that there was no foreign interference with the computer systems responsible for counting votes that could lead to manipulation of the results.

Photo: twitter / Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton

Activists drew attention to the fact that the results of Hillary Clinton were significantly lower in the districts in which the electronic vote count was conducted, compared to those using paper ballots and optical scanners.

However, at the election headquarters, Clinton has not yet expressed any interest in joining the struggle for a recount.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump delivered a Thanksgiving address calling on his fellow citizens to join his efforts to “rebuild the country” and heal the wounds of a grueling and painful election campaign.

“This will not happen overnight, unfortunately, but we have a chance to make history together, to achieve real change in Washington, true security for our cities and true prosperity for our communities,” Trump said. “My prayer this Thanksgiving is that we will begin to overcome what divides us and move forward as one country, strengthened by shared goals and shared resolve,” he added.

Wednesday Trump объявил about new appointments to your future office.

The post of Minister of Education agreed to take Betsy DeVos, known for her disapproving remarks about the future president.

Trump's fierce critic in the past, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, has been nominated for the post of US representative to the UN.

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