Hillary Clinton Won’t Rule Out Challenging Legitimacy of 2016 Election

Monday on NPR’s “Fresh Air,” 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said she would not “rule out” challenging the legitimacy of the 2016 presidential election, although she said she wasn’t sure if there was a “legal, constitutional way to do that.” Partial transcript as follows: GROSS: Democrats have said that they think there was Russian interference in the election, but that they’re not challenging the results of the election. As more and more information comes out about the depth of Russia’s interference in the election, do you think, at some point, that it would be legitimate to challenge the legitimacy of the election? CLINTON: I don’t know if there’s any legal, constitutional way to do that. I think you can raise questions. In fact, I think part of the reason Trump behaves the way he behaves is that he is a walking example of projection. Whatever he’s doing and whatever he thinks is happening he will accuse somebody else of. And there are examples during the campaign when he did just that, like when he called publicly on Russia to hack my personal emails. He knew they were trying to do whatever they could to discredit me with emails, so there’s obviously