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[00:00.12]This is What's Trending Today...
[00:02.84]President-elect Donald Trump and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
[00:08.36]had their last debate before the presidential election on October 19.
[00:13.76]The moderator of the debate, Chris Wallace,
[00:17.68]asked Trump if he would accept the results of the election.
[00:21.96]In response, Trump said, "I will look at it at the time."
[00:27.80]Later in the conversation, he said, "I'll keep you in suspense, okay?"
[00:34.16]Trump is now the president-elect.
[00:37.36]He is set to take office in January.
[00:41.28]But officials have announced they will re-count the votes in some states.
[00:46.92]In response, Trump wrote on Twitter
[00:50.32]that "millions" of people voted illegally for his opponent.
[00:54.96]Almost 50,000 people forwarded the tweet,
[00:59.76]and close to 150,000 more "liked" it.
[01:04.12]News organizations and political analysts say no evidence supports Trump's claim.
[01:12.20]One reason that people are still disputing the results
[01:16.20]is because of how presidents are elected in the United States.
[01:21.08]States ¨C not voters ¨C choose the president.
[01:25.16]The system is called the Electoral College.
[01:29.28]In the 2016 election, Trump won enough states
[01:34.16]under the Electoral College system to beat Hillary Clinton,
[01:38.52]but he did not win the most votes overall.
[01:42.84]Members of the Electoral College will meet on December 19.
[01:48.16]The results were very close in three of the states Trump won
[01:53.80]-- Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
[01:58.40]Activists are raising money to request the votes there be re-counted.
[02:04.56]If the results change, Trump risks losing the Electoral College and therefore the election.
[02:12.24]This weekend, Trump said on Twitter that he won the Electoral College.
[02:18.92]He would have won the popular vote, too,
[02:21.96]he said, "if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally."
[02:27.52]Trump also claimed there were illegal votes in three of the states Clinton won:
[02:33.84]Virginia, New Hampshire and California.
[02:38.48]Trump asked, "Why isn't the media reporting on this?"
[02:43.80]Alex Padilla is the secretary of state in California.
[02:48.84]He said Trump did not have evidence for his claim of illegal votes in California.
[02:55.12]Padilla added that Trump's tweets were "reckless" and "unbecoming" of a president-elect.
[03:02.92]Others warned news organizations not to report Trump's comments
[03:08.84]without considering first whether they were true.
[03:12.28]One social media user brought some humor into the debate, saying:
[03:18.16]"Trump won the popular vote 100-percent
[03:21.20]if you deduct the millions and millions of people who did not vote for him."
[03:26.48]And that's What's Trending Today.