TJ Walker and others debate the 2016 recount efforts, including Jill Stein's petitions and claims of electronic ballot tampering. Walker, a media trainer, advises Hillary Clinton to stay quiet and let others handle recounts, saying it protects her reputation and the odds of overturning the result are tiny.
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There's growing clamor throughout the United States.
For a recount to take place in.
Several key swing states where President elect Donald Trump won narrowly.
The suggestion is that there's been some.
Tampering with the counting of electronic ballots.
And that, in fact, Hillary Clinton may have won the election because, after all.
She is up to meet million votes.
In the popular count.
So this does present a public relations.
Challenge for Hillary Clinton.
How does she deal with this issue? Because if she says, yeah, I want.
A recount, she risks antagonizing Donald Trump.
And whoever might be his new, well.
Jeff Sessions is going to be his.
New attorney general and perhaps angering people there. Of course, he ran on the platform.
Of saying he wanted to prosecute and.
Put Hillary Clinton in jail.
He since backed away from that.
But if you're Hillary Clinton, you have to be thinking, no way do I want to kick a WASP nest and.
See what comes out.
So, so far, her strategy, and I.
Think it's an excellent one, has been.
Not to comment on it.
In fact, she's not the one asking for a recount. The third party candidate, Jill Stein, is.
The one, in fact, asking for the recount.
She says she's doing it because she wants to know she's not doing it.
On behalf of the Hillary Clinton campaign.
Look, as a media trainer, I am.
Generally a big proponent of always putting some message out. There's always some perspective that you would.
Want the world to know if you.
Could say absolutely anything and get quoted.
The way you want.
But there are exceptions, and I do.
Think that this is one of those cases that is a good exception.
Let Jill Stein do the work here. Let other Democrats, media figures, columnists, pundits, demand a recount.
Hillary Clinton, I think, is wisely.
Having.
A low profile now sitting this one.
Out because there's frankly no benefit of her getting involved.
If a recount does happen and the.
Count shows that Donald Trump still won, she's not going to look silly or petty or like she prolonged things. As it is right now, Donald Trump.
Is giving her high marks for being statesmanlike.
She's not making new enemies. She's not looking petty, she's not looking vindictive.
She's not doing anything that could harm her reputation.
Now, of course, there's the possibility a.
Recount happens and she is awarded the.
Presidency, although I think the chances of.
That are far, far less than 1%.
Based on what I've really seen as.
Far as the evidence of possible malfeasance in the count here.
So that's the lesson for the rest of us.
Sometimes there are situations where even though.
There'S a big issue, even though you may care about it, even though there's.
A lot of attention, you really, really are better off simply not talking about.
It to the media at all. Keep your fingerprints off of things.
