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November 28, 2016

What does Bernie Sanders think of an election recount?

File photo, AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

Hillary Clinton’s Democratic rival in the primary campaign for her party’s nomination for president is OK with her team joining an effort for a recount of the 2016 election.

Parties have the “legal right” to call for a recount, Sen. Bernie Sanders said on Sunday morning on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

Though, he added, there’s little chance of any significant change in the results.

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Those results were definitive in the Electoral College, the nation’s official process of electing a president, whereby Donald Trump won 306 votes and Clinton received 232.

But in the popular vote, Clinton won by what is now more than 2 million votes.

Clinton’s campaign plans to back Green Party candidate Jill Stein’s recount effort in the battleground state of Wisconsin.

Clinton’s team had been relatively quiet about re-entering the fray in the wake of the election, which Clinton had conceded to now President-elect Trump.

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But campaign lawyer Marc Elias reportedly said they want to see a “fair” process for all involved.

“The Green Party has the legal right,” Sanders said Sunday.

But on the same morning __news show, former Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said that “the idea that we’re going to drag this out now. ... Is pretty incredible.”

Sanders’ comments came after Trump himself went on a tweet storm Sunday morning.

Sanders went on to say it’s more important that the Democratic Party turn to more promising matters, such as how to expand its tent to the working class and making sure Medicaid and Medicare aren’t cut by a Trump administration.

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