Donald Trump tweeted this afternoon that he won the popular vote if you factor out “the millions of people who voted illegally.”
Earlier today Trump was going off on recount efforts by Jill Stein and the Hillary Clinton campaign, recalling how people were on his case to accept the election results.
Well, now Trump is making this claim on Twitter:
In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2016
So is he alleging widespread voter fraud?
Trump continued:
It would have been much easier for me to win the so-called popular vote than the Electoral College in that I would only campaign in 3 or 4–
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2016
states instead of the 15 states that I visited. I would have won even more easily and convincingly (but smaller states are forgotten)!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2016