President-elect Donald Trump has continued his criticism of Hillary Clinton’s decision to back the attempt by Green party candidate Jill Stein to force election recounts in three states, saying he won the popular vote – in which he is more than 2m ballots behind Clinton – “if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally”. Trump earlier called the recount effort a “scam”, while senior adviser Kellyanne Conway called Stein and Clinton “a bunch of crybabies and sore losers”. Marc Elias, general counsel for the Clinton campaign, wrote on Saturday that the campaign would support Stein’s effort in Wisconsin,...