{"id":91774,"date":"2017-09-19T05:40:20","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T05:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/clinton-considers-contesting-election-results.html"},"modified":"2017-09-19T05:40:20","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T05:40:20","slug":"clinton-considers-contesting-election-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/clinton-considers-contesting-election-results.html","title":{"rendered":"Clinton considers contesting election results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t                            <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><br \/>\n\t                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/media2.foxnews.com\/BrightCove\/694940094001\/2017\/09\/14\/896\/504\/694940094001_5575543303001_5575533551001-vs.jpg?ve=1tl=1\" alt=\"Former Democratic presidential nominee points plenty of fingers for her 2016 election loss in her new memoir; reaction and analysis on 'The Five'\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"title\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Hillary Clinton embarks on her blame game book tour<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Former Democratic presidential nominee points plenty of fingers for her 2016 election loss in her new memoir; reaction and analysis on &#8216;The Five&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Hillary Clinton said Monday she wouldn\u2019t rule out challenging the results of the 2016 presidential election but said she doubted the legality of such a move.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">\u201cI don&#8217;t know if there&#8217;s any legal constitutional way to do that,\u201d Clinton told NPR\u2019s Terry Gross in an interview that aired Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Gross pressed the former first lady and Democratic candidate on whether that meant she would \u201ccompletely rule out questioning the legitimacy of this election if we learn that the Russian interference in the election is even deeper than we know now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clinton responded, \u201cNo. I would not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clinton later said there have been \u201cscholars\u201d and \u201cacademics\u201d who argue challenging the results would be possible &#8211; but Clinton herself dismissed the idea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just don\u2019t think we have a mechanism,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s interview is the latest in a media blitz by the former secretary of state as she promotes her new book, \u201cWhat Happened.\u201d Her tour includes a Monday night stop at Washington, D.C.\u2019s Warner Theater in what has been described as a \u201cconversation about a story that\u2019s personal, raw, detailed and surprisingly funny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clinton won the popular vote in November but fell short in the Electoral College count.<\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/feeds.foxnews.com\/~r\/foxnews\/politics\/~3\/YZbfdwZd3FE\/clinton-considers-contesting-election-results.html<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hillary Clinton embarks on her blame game book tour Former Democratic presidential nominee points plenty of fingers for her 2016 election loss in her new memoir; reaction and analysis on &#8216;The Five&#8217; Hillary Clinton said Monday she wouldn\u2019t rule out challenging the results of the 2016 presidential election but said she doubted the legality of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-91774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}