US President-elect calls Clinton's effort to force recount in three states as 'sad', adding 'nothing will change'.
Although Trump won more electoral votes than Clinton, he trailed his rival by almost two million popularity votes [Reuters]
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Clinton's decision to join an effort to force recounts of votes from
the November 8 election in up to three crucial states has been labelled
"sad" by US President-elect Donald Trump who added "nothing will change".In a Twitter post early on Sunday, Trump said Clinton, his Democrat rival, had already "conceded the election when she called" him prior to his victory speech in the early morning of November 9.
"So much time and money will be spent - same result! Sad," Trump tweeted, posting part of Clinton's speech telling her supporters to accept that "Donald Trump is going to be our president".
Kellyanne Conway, a senior Trump adviser, also called Clinton's decision to join a recount effort "incredible".
She told CNN that the president-elect has been "incredibly gracious and magnanimous" to Clinton, yet she is joining an effort to try to "somehow undo the 70-plus electoral votes that he beat her by".
Conway added that Trump had not ruled out the possibility of pursuing a criminal investigation into Clinton's use of a private email server while being the US Secretary of State, even if the President-elect had earlier indicated he would move past the issue.
Green Party candidate Jill Stein is pushing for recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
Trump earlier called Stein's effort a "scam"
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