That group broke for Trump 52 to 37 percent

03 Nov That group broke for Trump 52 to 37 percent

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It is impossible to know precisely how many voters nationally stayed home or voted for a third party candidate because of the Russians’ social media campaign. Nevertheless, the details from the indictment raise new questions about the legitimacy of Trump’s victory.

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While Trump maintains there is no proof that the Russian assistance affected the election, the contours of that final month of campaigning and the closeness of the tally suggest that the opposite is true: that it is highly unlikely the Russian efforts did not affect the outcome.

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Over the entire final month of the race, Trump essentially centered his campaign on talking about the emails stolen by Russian intelligence and then released through its allied group WikiLeaks. The messages, which were sent to and from Clinton campaign chair John Podesta, cast Clinton in a bad light. “We love WikiLeaks!” Trump would tell his rally crowds and live TV audiences, urging them to go to the website and read the emails for themselves. “Boy, do we love WikiLeaks.”

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Clinton supporters argue that when an election is that close, every factor is potentially a canada goose outlet online store game changer. For example, shifts in polling numbers suggest that former FBI Director James Comey’s letters reopening, and then reclosing, the investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server when she was secretary of state could also have cost her the election an argument Clinton herself has made.

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“The results of the election were not impacted,” Trump wrote the afternoon the indictment was released. McMaster, for canada goose outlet miami not making that assertion at a conference in Europe where McMaster acknowledged that it was now “incontrovertible” that Russia had interfered in the election. “General McMaster forgot to say that the results of the 2016 election were canada goose outlet new york not impacted or changed by the Russians,” Trump tweeted and then proceeded to cite a string of conspiracy theories promoted by Fox News that he believed McMaster also should have mentioned.