PG77: Recount!, Trump Transition, Conflicts of Interest, Obama Clemency

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.4 • 783 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2016

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Both Mike and Jay thought the 2016 presidential election was over, but that’s not so, at least according to Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein, who has raised over $5 million dollars for recounts in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania – three states that put Donald Trump over the top in the Electoral College, and states … Continue reading "PG77: Recount!, Trump Transition, Conflicts of Interest, Obama Clemency"Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening, wherever you are. And welcome to the politics guys with your host, Jay Carson and Michael Baranowski.
0:17.3	Welcome to the politics guys. I'm Michael Barronowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University.
0:23.4	My co-host this week, as always, is Cleveland Area Attorney and sometime Republican strategist Jay Carson.
0:30.0	Who won the 2016 presidential election?
0:33.0	I thought it was a pretty much answered question, but it seems like so much else in American politics these days.
0:39.2	The answer you'll get depends on who you ask.
0:42.7	Nothing is over until we say it.
0:45.1	Exactly.
0:45.9	As Otter, I think, said.
0:48.1	Otter was a Bluto.
0:49.0	It was Pluto, actually.
0:50.5	Yeah.
0:50.8	Oh, yeah.
0:51.3	I hadn't thought about that reference.
0:52.6	Now, what we do know is that more people overall voted for Hillary Clinton, over two
0:57.1	million more at this point, which is around 2% more of the popular vote than Donald Trump got.
1:02.7	Now, until this week, we thought we knew that that didn't matter because Donald Trump had
1:07.4	won more electoral votes, 306 to Clinton's 232, which counting Michigan,
1:12.8	which just a few days ago declared Trump the winner by just over 10,000 votes.
1:17.9	But now, the vote in three critical states that could flip the election, Michigan, Wisconsin,
1:23.4	and Pennsylvania, is being challenged. Not as you might expect by Hillary Clinton's campaign or the
1:29.6	Democratic Party, but by Green Party nominee Jill Stein, who this last week has raised over
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