Aides to the Clintons, Bill and Hillary, also confirmed that the couple will attend the President-elect’s inauguration later this month
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Obama announced on Thursday that he had passed executive actions to impose sanctions on Russia’s cyber intelligence community, including several companies, and expel 35 Russian diplomats
The president-elect also listed some policies under Obama’s administration, which he thought constituted baggage to the outgoing President and would have made it difficult for Obama to be re-elected had the US Constitution allowed him to contest for the third term
Obama said this to his former Senior Adviser, David Axelrod, in an interview for the “The Axe Files” podcast, produced by the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN, aired on Monday
Under US law, electors must formally vote for the president and vice-president before they can lead the country
Stein initially filed for recounts in three states where the final margin for President-elect Donald Trump was narrow: Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania
US District Judge, Mark Goldsmith, on Monday, issued a ruling instructing state authorities to start the recount at noon (1700 GMT) in order to meet a December 13 deadline to certify the vote
Trump, at a “Thank you tour” of Ohio, said the African-Americans had nothing to lose in his presidency, a Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria reports
The academics presented findings showing that in Wisconsin, Clinton received seven per cent fewer votes in counties that relied on electronic-voting machines compared with counties that used optical scanners and paper ballots
But technically, the Electoral College doesn’t vote until December 19, and the electors have the power to choose Clinton instead of Trump – thus overturning the “results” of the election
To pull this off, an expanded “deportation force” would almost certainly be necessary, but Mr Trump’s advisers have spent the past few days downplaying the prospect of such an organisation
It is left to the Nigerian government not to behave as if these statements do not matter
According to the participants who were on the call, Clinton told her supporters on Saturday that her team had drafted a memo that looked at the changing opinion polls leading up to the election
The protesters blasted Trump over the way he conducted his campaign, particularly his statements about immigrants, Africans, Muslims and other minority groups
The video was uploaded on Monday to YouTube, but the prediction was made on Sunday during a service
A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria in the US reports that exit polls projection showed that Trump won Kentucky, Indiana, Florida, Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan and Wisconsin, while Clinton won in Pennsylvania, Virginia and Vermont
The Head of the FBI, James Comey, announced this when he appeared before Congress
NAN reports that the US election is decided by the Electoral College made up of 548 persons and not a popular vote as it is obtained in most countries
This came as both candidates hit battle grounds in a tightened race in Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Arizona and Nevada, according to data from Kantar Media/CMAG, a company that tracks political advertising
In endorsing Clinton, the Financial Times said: “This is a moment for the renewal of American leadership. One candidate has the credentials. Hillary Clinton has served as first lady, senator for New York and US secretary of state. Donald Trump deals in denigration not diplomacy