Obama urged Clinton to concede on election night https://t.co/6ENeorvD60 pic.twitter.com/Vq1sSaR168
— The Hill (@thehill) November 25, 2016
...Obama’s call left a sour taste in the mouths of some Clinton allies who believe she should have waited longer, and there’s now a fight playing out between the Obama and Clinton camps over whether to support an effort to force the Rust Belt states to recount their votes...
At the time, campaign Chairman John Podesta, a former Obama White House official, had been dispatched to Clinton’s victory party at the Jacob Javits Center to deliver an anodyne statement leaving the result of the election unaddressed.
Before he returned, Clinton put an end to the debate among her inner circle by asking to talk to Trump.
“Just give me the phone,” she said in frustration. “I’m calling him.”
