Keep grasping at straws.
Via The Observer:
Every four years, one of America’s major political parties loses an election and goes through a mourning period. In 2008 (and at various times over the next eight years), some on the Right insisted President Barack Obama was not a legitimate president because they believed he was actually born in Kenya. In 2012, Republicans reacted in a more sensible way by conducting an autopsy of the election.
Now in 2016, Democrats are mourning in their own way. First, there was disbelief. Then came the claims of vote-rigging and calls for a recount. Peppered throughout all of this were assertions that Hillary Clinton actually won the election because she won the popular vote. This absurd notion required the suspension of common sense, including the fact that neither Clinton nor Donald Trump campaigned for the national popular vote and also that Clinton’s lead in the popular vote came entirely from populous liberal states like California and New York‚ hardly representative of the country at-large.
Many on the Left, including Clinton, have gotten behind Green Party candidate Jill Stein’s efforts to raise money for recounts in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin; three traditionally blue states that voted for Trump by slim margins in 2016. It was always clear the recount wouldn’t turn over the election results and bestow the presidency upon Clinton, but the Left suddenly found their savior in Stein… Until last week, when some began bemoaning the fact that Stein got more votes in some swing states than Trump’s victory margin.
The Hill reporter Brooke Seipel wrote that in Michigan and Wisconsin, Trump defeated Clinton by fewer votes than Stein received. In Michigan, Stein got 51,463 votes, while Trump only beat Clinton by 10,704 votes. In Wisconsin, where vote totals have not been certified, Stein received 31,006 votes while Trump defeated Clinton by 22,177 votes.
Dave Wasserman of the Cook Political Report was the first to note the vote margins, and included Pennsylvania in his list, showing Stein received 49,678 votes in the Keystone State while Trump beat Clinton by 46,765 votes. Since his original tweets, more votes have been counted in the state, and Trump’s victory margin over Clinton was actually more than the number of votes Stein received.
Some critics are now blaming Stein for Clinton’s loss. This isn’t anything new. Many Republicans have also blamed Libertarian candidates for past losses.