President Trump has now twice endorsed the losing candidate in Alabama.
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Therefore, California Republicans know they are almost certainly backing a losing candidate.
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As CNN reported Wednesday, Trump was infuriated after backing the losing candidate.
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Trump was reportedly mad and embarrassed that he had backed the losing candidate.
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Arizona Republicans have to prove that their losing candidate is actually a winner.
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Clinton's total popular vote was the largest for a losing candidate since 1876.
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A losing candidate who refuses to concede could whip them up into a wildfire.
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He faced down riots in May by supporters of the losing candidate, former Gen.
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And only a quarter of Trump supporters say the losing candidate should challenge the result.
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"We want to ask Carlos Mesa, the losing candidate, to join the audit," he added.
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The losing candidate is winning just often enough to keep raising money and motivating volunteers.
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It's clear now that he colluded with a losing candidate to unethically record a private conversation.
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Trump also appears to have tried to erase evidence of his support for the losing candidate.
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In the case of cracking, these are all of the votes cast for a losing candidate.
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In other words, Arizona Republicans have to prove that their losing candidate is actually a winner.
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"This is deadly serious now," said Benoît Hamon, the losing candidate of the governing Socialist Party.
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When conceding a hard-fought race, the losing candidate affirms the validity of the democratic process.
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He had backed losing candidate Francois Fillon in this year's French presidential election, won by Emmanuel Macron.
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Both vice presidential nominees suggested they would be willing to work on immigration reform with the losing candidate.
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There is no law that forces a losing candidate to concede defeat — only a bipartisan tradition of comity.
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Will recently called Trump the worst president in history for his endorsement of a losing candidate in Alabama.
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Mr. Zuma had strongly backed the losing candidate, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, a veteran politician and his former wife.
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After every presidential election, the losing candidate continues to play a role as the face of the losing party.
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Perhaps the losing candidate that Clinton most resembles is Al Smith, the first major-party Catholic candidate for president.
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Wasted votes are those cast for a losing candidate or above the number a winning candidate needed to prevail.
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The problem with this strategy is that every losing candidate promises to do this, and it almost never works.
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The losing candidate, while disappointed, exhausted, even embittered, has demonstrated dignity in defeat and conceded to the president-elect.
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In 2014 voters rejected a blander version of Mr Temer's reforms, put forward by the PSDB's losing candidate, Aécio Neves.
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The losing candidate in the August election, Bruce Franks, cited irregularities in the city election board's handling of absentee ballots.
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Whatever the outcome of the rollercoaster election transfixing the U.S. this year, the losing candidate will not flee the country.
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Some in the party have questioned whether a Senate-race-losing candidate should even be running for president so soon.
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Like many a losing candidate, Sanders claims he's won the intellectual argument within the party, even if not its nomination.
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Turkey is now a four-time losing candidate; it also mounted failed bids to host Euro 2008, 2012 and 2016.
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A judge is now considering a request from the losing candidate to throw out the results and order a new election.
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Swing states could change their laws by 2020 so that audits happen automatically, without the losing candidate having to request them.
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An endorsement by the Wisconsin GOP party now could put pressure on the losing candidate to step aside before the Aug.
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President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell — who campaigned for and spent millions of dollars on losing candidate Sen.
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Typically, primaries end with the losing candidate and their supporters falling in line to be a good partisan soldier in the end.
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We all know the time-honored tradition of blaming the losing candidate and their campaign for making every misstep in the book.
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Just off a disastrous defeat by an ex-entertainer, a losing candidate who ran with appeals to a collection of interest groups.
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When House elections got challenged, it generally wasn't because the losing candidate accused black voters of engaging in the fraud and intimidation.
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The losing candidate can lodge a challenge in the constitutional court within three days, otherwise the election panel will officially declare the winner.
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"The only way I don't have to do these recounts is if the losing candidate says they don't want a recount," Bucher said.
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" The report continued: "For the first time in Pew Research Center postelection surveys, voters give the losing candidate higher grades than the winner.
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It may be that being a losing candidate may have a larger negative implication for voters than for the politically connected conventioneers of old.
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So if the president is trying to make supporters forget that he endorsed a losing candidate, he's doing a really shitty job of it.
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Yet some political analysts think a losing candidate — Gwen Graham, a former congresswoman — had a better chance of winning the general election this fall.
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In the past, I've warned of the risk that rogue electors could conceivably throw the outcome of a presidential election to a losing candidate.
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There is also precedent after 1972 for the losing candidate (after knowing he or she has lost) to decline to explicitly endorse the nominee.
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In the past, I have warned of the risk that rogue electors could throw the outcome of a presidential election to a losing candidate.
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"Remind them, as in sports, don't make fun of those who supported the losing candidate, and don't be unkind towards those who won," she said.
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The results of a 2002 academic experiment involving a challenge by a losing candidate suggest that the consequences of a candidate endorsement would be substantial.
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On each of those occasions, the losing candidate took their case to the election tribunal and later appealed at the Supreme Court but were defeated.
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And tens of millions of people will vote for the losing candidate in any presidential election, so it isn't like candidates don't have plenty of supporters.
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This new reality has left fashion feeling bereft, in a way that goes beyond backing the losing candidate and to the core of the industry's identity.
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As Clinton highlighted in her remarks, there are fears on both sides of the party about whether supporters for the losing candidate will back the winner.
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These are the numbers of a losing candidate EXCEPT that voters cared more about one thing more than all of Trump's less-than-attractive personal traits: Change.
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ELIZABETHTOWN, N.C. — Democrats have been quick to argue that their losing candidate for Congress in North Carolina's Ninth District may have been a victim of election fraud.
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The losing candidate had employed Trump-style campaign tactics that highlighted divisive issues such as immigration, although the president did not join him on the campaign trail.
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In all elections, the losing candidate gets some votes and the winning candidate gets more votes than he needs to win; these are all so-called "wasted votes".
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This deems every vote cast for a losing candidate, as well as votes cast for a winner in excess of what he needs to win, to be wasted.
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But the candidates will not be briefed on the most highly classified intelligence, because the government does not want a losing candidate to have that level of information.
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In other races when this happened, either the losing candidate conceded before the House got involved or the leading candidate was from its majority party, which selected him.
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Hillary Clinton has widened her lead in the popular vote to 1.5 percentage points, a spread not seen for a losing candidate since the disputed election of 1876.
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Hillary Clinton has widened her lead in the popular vote to 21951 percentage points, a spread not seen for a losing candidate since the disputed election of 220.
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"We lost in 2016 partly because the Democratic establishment and Democratic establishment money nominated a losing candidate," said Jonathan Tasini, a national surrogate for Sanders's 2016 presidential campaign.
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Hillary Clinton has widened her lead in the popular vote to 2400 percentage points, a spread not seen for a losing candidate since the disputed election of 1876.
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The typical scenario in 20183st-century presidential campaigns has been for even the losing candidate to be viewed favorably by at least a narrow majority of the population.
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If a losing candidate triggers the recount and the margin between them and the opponent is less than 0.5 percent, the county or state pays for the recount.
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No concession — whether in a public speech or a private phone call — is formally required of the losing candidate in a presidential election; only tradition and civility demand it.
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Meantime, Hillary Clinton has widened her lead in the popular vote to 1.5 percentage points, a spread not seen for a losing candidate since the disputed election of 1876.
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In the chart, the different bars distinguish between those who voted for the winning candidate for president in 2012 (Obama) and those who voted for a losing candidate (typically Romney).
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But what if Sanders isn't a Nader-type spoiler or a losing candidate in denial about the inevitable, and instead has his own theory as to how to defeat Trump?
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FREETOWN (Reuters) - The losing candidate in Sierra Leone's presidential election, Samura Kamara, said the voting was marred by fraud and he plans to launch a legal challenge to the result.
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Second, if there is no majority winner in the first round, you eliminate the last-place candidate, and add ballots cast for the losing candidate to their voters' next choice.
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Growth was anemic in 2017 and Colombians are thirsty for social change, especially after the losing candidate, Gustavo Petro, used his campaign to shine a light on deep social inequalities.
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Moscow backed one losing candidate after another, including an unusual, high-profile endorsement of the pro-Russia, far-right leader Marine Le Pen, whom French voters rejected soundly on Sunday.
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The platform has long been a vital tool as it looks to heal the wounds from a bruising primary and welcome the losing candidate and their supporters under one umbrella.
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Youssef Chahed, who has served as prime minister since 2016, and was a losing candidate in the presidential election, will continue as acting premier until a new government is appointed.
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Youssef Chahed, who has served as prime minister since 2016, and was a losing candidate in the presidential election, will continue as acting premier until a new government is appointed.
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They have not been punished legally for such action, but if they switch to the losing candidate, they may find themselves demoted within the party structure and shunned by former allies.
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In all, 43 states "permit a losing candidate, a voter, a group of voters or other concerned parties to petition for a recount," according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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The only question is how long will it take the supporters of the losing candidate to get on board with the eventual nominee -- the kind of problem Republicans wished they had.
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On the other hand, while on the campaign trail, losing candidate Le Pen had advocated abandoning the euro currency used within the EU as well as closing the Union's open borders.
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And what the current president does or has done matters a whole lot more than what a losing candidate for president does, in the eyes of our criminal and legal systems.
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Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)Losing candidate in Sierra Leone's presidential run-off election, Samura Kamara, has said his party, the All People's Congress will challenge Julius Maada Bio presidential win in court.
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He lost the popular vote to Democrat Hillary Clinton by nearly 403 million votes — the biggest margin in history for a losing candidate — but won the Electoral College by 74 votes.
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See article Liberia's supreme court halted a presidential run-off election that was to be held on November 7th, after complaints of fraud by a losing candidate in last month's first round.
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The theory was based in part on measuring the number of "wasted" votes in each district cast for a losing candidate and comparing each party's total wasted votes on a statewide basis.
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Here is how it works: in all elections, the losing candidate gets some votes and the winning candidate gets more votes than he needs to win; these are all so-called "wasted votes".
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In each of the past three presidential elections, however, the losing candidate has received over fifty-nine million votes; the 2016 winner will need at least sixty million, likely many more than that.
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The party's losing candidate in the Istanbul mayoral contest, a former prime minister, warned he would have Syrians who posed a threat to security and public order "grabbed by the ears" and deported.
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For most of American history, party leaders, eyeing widespread resistance to even the idea of a woman commander in chief, were loath to put their money (literally and figuratively) on a losing candidate.
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Partisans of the losing candidate will be quick to declare widespread fraud on the slightest of evidence, and partisans of the winning candidate will be called to marshal incontrovertible evidence of their victory.
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She went not as the losing candidate but as a former first lady, and even then, she told Norton, she and her husband Bill Clinton tried to see if there was a way out.
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BAMAKO (Reuters) - The losing candidate in Mali's presidential election, Soumaila Cisse, said on Friday that he has lodged an appeal with the country's constitutional court to overturn the results that he says were fraudulent.
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Whatever the outcome, however, nearly 8 in 10 say that once all the states have certified their vote counts, the losing candidate has an obligation to accept the results and concede to the winner.
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There isn't much data available on how much the average losing candidate spends on their campaign, but in 2016, the average winning House candidate spent $1.3 million, according to campaign finance tracker Open Secrets.
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Typically, even the losing candidate has a net positive approval rating on Election Day — that's how it shook out for Mitt Romney, John McCain, and John Kerry — but in 2016, both candidates were underwater.
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Last but by no means least, while "losing candidate complains about media coverage" is the ultimate dog-bites-man story, Trump has managed to add an edge of real threat and menace to his approach.
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The assault by former "Ninja" militiamen, once loyal to the father of a losing candidate in last month's presidential election, has been contained and the government is investigating possible links with opposition candidates, Moungalla said.
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The larger the field, the more likely it is any endorsement will go to a losing candidate, and the more likely that those influencers will show their currency is not worth what it once was.
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Once the national popular vote system becomes the new norm among elites and the mass public, the national popular vote winner will have much more legitimacy than the losing candidate among the mass public and elites.
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What would probably happen is that the losing candidate would probably file a lawsuit in federal courts under the equal protection clause and argue that the conduct of Ohio's elections was flawed under the equal protection clause.
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Carlos Mesa, a former president who was the losing candidate in the recent presidential election — widely considered fraudulent — said members of the opposition were attempting to appeal to the patriotism of lawmakers who have backed Mr. Morales.
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BISSAU (Reuters) - The losing candidate in Guinea-Bissau's presidential election filed a Supreme Court challenge on Friday to former prime minister and ex-army general Umaro Cissoko Embalo's victory in a run-off, a court spokesman said.
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While the opposition first cried fraud, without providing proof, it later scaled back its accusations and is now focusing on the minerals-rich state of Bolivar where it says its losing candidate was robbed of decisive votes.
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Mitt Romney, the losing candidate in 2012, assembled around 700 people to work on his transition—including "agency-review teams", snooper squads ready to be deployed across the government so that Mr Romney could hit the ground running.
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"We have called on the OAS and brother countries so they can clear up any doubt with respect to the malicious campaign of the losing candidate, who refuses to accept the decision of the Bolivian people," Garcia said.
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It's not a huge number of people — about a quarter of the two-fifths of Democrats/Democratic-leaning independents supporting the losing candidate — but it nonetheless could prove significant in a race as close as this one is looking to be.
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MONROVIA (Reuters) - Liberia's Supreme Court has halted preparations for next week's presidential run-off vote between former soccer star George Weah and Vice President Joseph Boakai until it considers a challenge to first round results by a losing candidate who alleged fraud.
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Although I do think we need to remind people once in a while that the new senator from North Dakota got elected with fewer than 180,000 votes, while the losing candidate in Florida is a guy who got more than four million.
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Over the past 22008 years, as polling has become more sophisticated and rigorous, there is abundant evidence of general election fallout from bitter primaries, as supporters of the losing candidate either stayed home on Election Day or headed to the other side of the ballot.
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In his 2008 book, "Redistricting and Representation," he argued that partisan districts packed with like-minded voters actually lead to better representation than ones more evenly split between Democrats and Republicans, because fewer voters in partisan districts cast a vote for a losing candidate.
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Thus, the larger the apparent margin in the Electoral College on election night, the harder it would be for the losing candidate to legally challenge the election -- since he or she would have to succeed in overturning the results in enough states to change the outcome in the Electoral College.
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Like 2628 GOP nominee Mitt Romney, 28503 Democratic nominee John KerryJohn Forbes KerryTrump's winning weapon: Time The Memo: O'Rourke looks to hit reset button #FreeAustinTice trending on anniversary of kidnapping in Syria MORE and others before them, the losing candidate will remain free to pursue their interests, political or otherwise.
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She is extremely unlikely to have been "pivotal," of course, or to have played a causally significant role in the election results, but she can identify herself in the final tally of her state's popular vote as either a supporter of a winning or losing candidate (or as an eligible nonvoter).
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Although Sanders is winding down his campaign, he's likely to cast an unusually large shadow for a losing candidate, and the reason can be summed up in one sentence: He mobilized a large left-wing youth vote that will dominate the Democratic Party and shape a generation's political aspirations for years to come.
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Just 23.4 percent of those polled gave Trump an A or B grade for his campaign, while 24.9 percent gave him an F. Forty-three percent gave Clinton either an A or B, the first time in the history of Pew's post-election survey that the losing candidate has graded better than the winner.
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Thus, in the context of the efficiency gap, there are two kinds of wasted votes: those for a losing candidate and those for a winning candidate that go beyond what is necessary for victory (for simplicity, we take the threshold for victory to be 50 percent, even though this could technically result in a tie; an actual tie is beyond unlikely with hundreds of thousands of voters in each congressional district).
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It is unclear what new information, if any, the investigators have uncovered, but the involvement of Princess Haya, whose brother Prince Ali bin al-Hussein was twice a losing candidate for the presidency of FIFA, soccer's global governing body, suggests that while FIFA has claimed to have entered an era of reform since a corruption scandal toppled its leadership in 2015, its days of palace intrigue are far from over.
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