win was so narrow The electoral win wasn ' t narrow at all . Trump won Michigan , all paper ballots so the result won ' t be changed . They could recount Wisconsin and Pennsylvania , find problems and give the States to Hillary . Trump still has over 270 electoral votes and wins . We need to be consistent . If we recount States that are close in this election we need to do it in every election . In order to flip this election it would require more than one State , maybe up to three or four if Florida is accurate . Frankly , IMO it ' s simply a case of sore losers who realize they aren ' t going to win the electoral vote but want to highlight that the electoral vote doesn ' t match the popular vote and that is a completely different topic .