{"id":18312,"date":"2016-12-02T19:46:04","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T19:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18312"},"modified":"2016-12-02T19:46:04","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T19:46:04","slug":"why-is-trump-resisting-a-wisconsin-recount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18312","title":{"rendered":"Why is Trump resisting a Wisconsin recount?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Donald_Trump_lies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18313\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Donald_Trump_lies-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"donald_trump_lies\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Donald_Trump_lies-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Donald_Trump_lies-768x483.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Donald_Trump_lies.jpg 896w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have a theory as to why Donald J. Trump doesn&#8217;t want the vote recount in Wisconsin to proceed.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not that the president-elect fears it would overturn the result and hand the state to Hillary Rodham Clinton. Nor is it that it&#8217;s going to put the nation&#8217;s faith in local elections officials in jeopardy.<\/p>\n<p>Quite the contrary. My theory is that a recount is going to suggest that there&#8217;s nothing inherently and critically wrong with the way the votes were tabulated in Wisconsin, and possibly in Michigan and Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/donald-trump-is-a-hypersensitive-tantrum-throwing-sore-winner-but-the-recount-must-go-on\/\">https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/donald-trump-is-a-hypersensitive-tantrum-throwing-sore-winner-but-the-recount-must-go-on\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You see, such a discovery snatches one of the Trump&#8217;s favorite talking points right out of his pie hole. It delivers the strongest rebuke yet\u00a0about the defamatory remarks he made about a &#8220;rigged election.&#8221; He was talking about possibly losing to Hillary Rodham Clinton and whether he would accept the results as announced.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, the man <em>won<\/em> the election, but he&#8217;s keeping up the drumbeat of allegation and innuendo about the integrity of a political system from which he drew direct benefit.<\/p>\n<p>Might it be that a recount\u00a0would douse\u00a0all of that careless rhetoric and reveal the foolishness and recklessness of our next president?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a theory as to why Donald J. Trump doesn&#8217;t want the vote recount in Wisconsin to proceed. It&#8217;s not that the president-elect fears it would overturn the result and hand the state to Hillary Rodham Clinton. Nor is it that it&#8217;s going to put the nation&#8217;s faith in local elections officials in jeopardy. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18312\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why is Trump resisting a Wisconsin recount?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[1424,2139,6708],"class_list":["post-18312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-wisconsin-recount"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18314,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18312\/revisions\/18314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}