Trump team rejects effort to push vote recount

Calls effort to recount "nonsense"; does not offer any evidence to back president-elect's weekend tweet


Reuters November 28, 2016
This file photo taken on October 22, 2016 shows President-elect Donald Trump during a campaign event at the Eisenhower Hotel in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. PHOTO: AFP

WASHINGTON: Donald Trump's transition team on Monday pushed back against an emerging effort to recount votes from the November 8 presidential election, calling it "nonsense," but not offering any evidence to back the president-elect's weekend tweet alleging millions of illegal votes.

The Green Party last week filed for a recount in Wisconsin, a move joined by lawyers for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, and has said it will seek a recount in Michigan and Pennsylvania.

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