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those illegal votes cost me the popular vote
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Trump wrongly blames fraud for
loss of popular vote
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President Donald Trump,
center, hosts a reception for House and Senate leaders in the the State Dining
Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 23, 2017. Some of the
participants are, from left, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-NyY.,
House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of
Calif. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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WASHINGTON (AP) —
President Donald Trump asserted in a private meeting with congressional leaders
Monday night that he would have won the popular vote in the 2016 election if 3
million to 5 million immigrants living in the country illegally hadn't voted.
Trump made the
debunked claim, without offering any evidence, at a White House meeting with
Democratic and Republican leaders, according to a Democratic aide familiar with
the exchange who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the private
meeting.
House Majority Leader
Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., alluded to it, telling reporters that Trump and the
lawmakers talked about "the different Electoral College, popular
vote." Asked if anything surprised her about the meeting, House Democratic
Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said, "I won't even go into that."
There has been no
evidence of widespread tampering or hacking that would change the results of
the presidential contest. Trump won the Electoral College by a comfortable
margin but Democratic rival Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by nearly 2.9
million votes.
Throughout the
campaign, Trump pushed false claims about the propensity of voter fraud,
telling his supporters the election had been "rigged" against him.
Trump has made the
unverified claims before, tweeting in late November that he would have won the
popular vote "if you deduct the millions of people who voted
illegally." He also alleged at the time that there had been "serious
voter fraud" in California, New Hampshire and Virginia and complained that
the media wasn't covering it.
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Associated Press writer Mary Clare Jalonick
contributed to this report.
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