Nobody ever talks about this, but California was counting votes for weeks after the election. There was no doubt on election night that Hillary carried California. But the margin of victory continued to grow and grow. The margin was a bit over 1.5 million votes on election night. As the weeks went by, the vote count continued and reached over 4 million by the time the vote count was certified.
I have wondered how Hillary’s vote margin in California grew from about 1.5 million to over 4 million in the weeks after the election. Were there activists padding her vote totals, to tie in the the liberal meme that “she won the popular vote”??? This huge margin in California alone enabled the liberals to claim she won the nationwide popular vote.
And since the national election was decided, the activists could have padded the vote totals since nobody was watching what they were doing. There was no dispute that Hillary carried California easily, the only issue would be the size of the margin.
If you back out California from the rest of the country, then Trump would have won both popular and electoral votes comfortably.
“...to claim she won the nationwide popular vote.”
So she could claim to be the winner of a race that no one else was running and that didn’t matter anyway. Democrats are stupid like that.
I didn't know that.
Even a moron would find that rather peculiar.
I think they may have literally over-played their hand.
California's voting system needs to be turned upside down, and all of the corruption shaken out.
I'll bet it is enormous, and that "extra" 2.5 million votes are prima facie evidence.
If you back out California from the rest of the country, then Trump would have won both popular and electoral votes comfortably.
Actually, not even all of California.
If you subtract just LA County and NYC, Trump would have run by about 4 million votes