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BREAKING: Donald Trump Officially Wins Michigan As He Claims Voter Fraud

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President-elect Donald Trump has won Michigan’s 16 electoral votes.

The Board of State Canvassers certified Trump’s 10,704-vote victory on Monday, nearly three weeks after the election. The two-tenths of a percentage point margin out of nearly 4.8 million votes is the closest presidential race in Michigan in more than 75 years.

Trump’s win in Michigan gives the Republican 306 electoral votes to Democrat Hillary Clinton’s 232.

Trump is the first Republican presidential nominee to win Michigan since 1988.

Green Party candidate Jill Stein is expected to ask for a recount. She has until Wednesday. Trump would have seven days to file objections to her request.

Trump Alleged Massive Voter Fraud

Monday was supposed to be about getting back to work for the president-elect, but before US President-elect, Donald Trump could start reviewing his next appointments, he was immersed in a controversy of his own making on Sunday, charging that the election he won had been marred by fraud.

In a Twitter rant that grew more specific even as it left facts far behind, Mr. Trump first said his popular vote deficit — 2.24 million and climbing — would be reversed if not for three million votes by illegal immigrants, a charge that seemed to emerge from baseless partisan “fake news.”

On Sunday night he went further, focusing his wrath on three states he lost.

The response, from Democrats and Republicans, has not been kind. And many say his allegations are only bolstering Democratic calls for a thorough auditing of the voting results.

Democrats and the Green Party presidential nominee, Jill Stein, must decide in the coming days whether to file for a recount in Michigan and possibly pursue legal action over the vote in Pennsylvania.

Hattip to AP/Business Insider, The New York Times

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