Donald Trump appears at a campaign roundtable event in Manchester, N.H., in October. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters)Disheartened Hillary Clinton supporters have been consoled by the fact that she won the national popular vote, despite losing the electoral vote — and the presidential election — to Donald Trump. But on Sunday afternoon, Trump said on Twitter that he also would have won the popular vote — if a whole bunch of people had not voted illegally. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2016Trump's argument is a bigger version of the claim that he has made for months — that there is rampant voter fraud in the United States. Read more:How Donald Trump responded to the death of Fidel Castro, ‘a brutal dictator’Demonstrators square off against opponents and police as Anti-Trump protests spread

Source: Washington Post November 27, 2016 21:42 UTC