Latest 2016 Vote Totals: Clinton Within 500,000 Votes of Barack Obama's 2012 Total

Democrat Hillary Clinton is within 500,000 votes of the number won by President Barack Obama in 2012, leading President-elect Donald Trump by 2.6 million ballots, the Associated Press reported Monday.

The latest tally gives Clinton 65,444,673 million votes or 48.2 percent, to Trump’s 62,802,237 or 46.3 percent. Trump, however, retains the advantage in the Electoral College with 306 electoral votes to Clinton’s 232.

In 2012, Obama won 65,915,795 votes, or 51.1 percent, to Republican Mitt Romney’s 60,933,504 votes or 47.2 percent. Obama won 3232 electoral votes to Romney’s 206.

The totals came as Wisconsin finished the recount demanded by Green Party candidate Jill Stein. It showed Trump defeated Clinton in Wisconsin by more than 22,000 votes, with the recount adding 131 votes to Trump’s total.

Trump tweeted his disgust with the recount process.

A federal judge Monday rejected Stein’s request for a paper ballot recount in Pennsylvania. U.S. District Judge Paul Diamond said the request for a recount “borders on the irrational” and that there was no credible evidence the system had been hacked. Trump won Pennsylvania by more than 70,000 votes.

Michigan got 40 percent of the way through a recount before it was halted by the courts. Clinton gained only 102 votes statewide, not nearly enough to overcome an 11,000-vote deficit.

The action comes amid an uproar over CIA conclusions that Russia tried to influence the outcome of the election. A group of electors Monday demanded a briefing on the intelligence findings ahead of their Dec. 19 vote, saying the matters involved go to the core of their “deliberations of whether Mr. Trump is fit to serve as president of the United States.”

Trump has discounted the validity of the intelligence conclusions. He said if he had lost and claimed hackers were to blame, it would have been called a conspiracy theory.

Trump is to be inaugurated Jan. 20.