Sophia Bush, who has been extremely active on social media surrounding the election, added, “I still believe in us”. Ben Sasse of Nebraska congratulated Trump.
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With several million votes still to be counted, she held a narrow lead in the nationwide popular vote.
Trump set both parties on edge when he refused to say in the third and final debate whether he would accept the election’s results, citing with no evidence the possibility of a rigged outcome.
Making change happen was foremost on voters’ minds, far outweighing experience, good judgment and a president who “cares”.
Exit polls suggest Donald Trump won the presidency by tapping into economic anxiety in America.
Meanwhile, the former Atlantic City casino magnate said he would be “the greatest jobs president God ever created”. “I’m angry and all that”, she said.
Starling Campbell supported Hillary Clinton. Further splitting from his campaign rhetoric, the NY mogul asked for help from those who “have chosen not to support [him] in the past”. He anxious Trump’s victory might embolden closet bigots and lead to more risky displays of anger.
His first tweet as the president-elect was retweeted 140,000 times and was “liked” by more than three lakh people.
Hillary Clinton, the overwhelming favorite before Tuesday’s vote, has just 218. Her use of a private email server as secretary of state not only dogged her for months – but returned at precisely the wrong moment in late October when FBI Director James Comey notified Congress he was reviewing new emails for evidence that she or her handlers mishandled classified information. “We all want what’s best for this country”.
President Barack Obama called Mr Trump early on Wednesday to congratulate him on the victory and had “a very nice talk”, Mr Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said.
It was unclear how substantive Obama’s call was with Trump, or how long it lasted, although the White House noted that Obama placed the call from his residence in the White House, rather than from the West Wing. He’s also vowed to tear up Obama’s immigration actions and discard the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal Obama painstakingly negotiated.
Obama campaigned vigorously for Trump’s Democratic rival, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and called Trump both temperamentally unfit for the presidency and dangerously unprepared to have access to USA nuclear codes.
Trump’s website has a “100-day action plan to Make America Great Again”.
“We have to come together”, said Wright.
As of 8:25 p.m. EST, Clinton had 68 electoral votes to Trump’s 66, with USA television networks projecting the victor in 16 of the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
If yesterday’s presidential elections in the United States were all about about morals, it would possibly have yielded an inconclusive result.
Hillary Clinton appears to have at least matched if not exceeded Donald Trump’s national support.
Brown, who backed Trump from the start of the NY businessman’s candidacy, said the president-elect did what few other Republicans did.
“People are sick and exhausted”, she said. She said they would meet possibly on Thursday. His speech was given at the White House, where he was joined by Vice President Joe Biden.
In an emotional concession speech, Clinton said her crushing loss was “painful and it will be for a long time” and acknowledged that the nation was “more divided than we thought”.
How, then, will Trump keep his “forgotten” supporters from becoming disillusioned and disaffected?
Clinton had more options to reach 270, with Trump needing a virtual sweep of about six toss-up states to win.
Together, those factors drove a yearning to return to a simpler time when America was the world’s undisputed superpower and middle-class wages were on the rise. Obama said that what the nation needs is a sense of unity, a sense of inclusion and respect – for our institutions, our rule of law and “respect for each other”.
Trump has drawn criticism for repeatedly praising Putin’s leadership and advocating a closer working relationship with Russian Federation despite its record of human rights abuses and recent military incursions in Ukraine and Syria.
Global stock markets and United States stock futures plunged early on Wednesday, but later recovered.
In US presidential history, note the scholars, there simply has never been a candidate who ascended to the highest office in the land with as little of a political or military background as Donald Trump. “While the campaign is over, our work on this movement has really just started”.
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Trump has questioned whether North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, an alliance of Western nations formed to counter the former Soviet Union, is outdated.
