Rep. Chris Collins says former President Bill Clinton can’t accept the fact that wife Hillary Clinton lost the election, and now he’s trying to delegitimize President-elect Donald Trump by reminding voters that he lost the popular vote.
“Just yesterday, Bill Clinton, as he was casting his Electoral College vote for his wife, went out again and said, let’s remember, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote,” Mr. Collins, a New York Republican, said Tuesday on CNN, the Washington Examiner reported.
“So, Bill Clinton continues to be one of those people who doesn’t want to let go, wants to refer to Donald Trump as the Electoral College president,” he said.
Mr. Clinton was recently quoted as saying the president-elect “doesn’t know much” except how to get “angry, white men to vote for him.” Mr. Trump fired back on Twitter Tuesday morning, saying Mr. Clinton “doesn’t know much” … “especially how to get people, even with an unlimited budget, out to vote in the vital swing states.”
Mr. Collins told CNN that he didn’t think Mr. Trump’s retort wasn’t a sign of “insecurity.”
“I thought that was totally inappropriate by former President Clinton, to again kind of gin up the Democrats who want to claim that Donald Trump’s not the legitimate president-elect of the United States,” Mr. Collins said.
“That was just yesterday,” he added. “I don’t blame Donald Trump at all. That was totally inappropriate by former President Clinton, to make the comments he did.”
• Jessica Chasmar can be reached at jchasmar@washingtontimes.com.
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