More than a year of campaigning came to an end Tuesday as millions of Americans voted for either Democrat Hillary Clinton, Republican Donald Trump, Libertarian Gary Johnson or Green Party candidate, Jill Stein. In his Rose Garden remarks, he paid tribute to her historic candidacy and said, “I could not be prouder of her”.
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Thousands of people took to Twitter with the hashtag #RIPUSA to express their shock at Trump’s shock win.
Obama blasted Trump throughout the campaign as unfit to serve as a commander in chief. After all, Trump championed the so-called “birther movement” challenging that Obama was actually born in the United States-a suggestion laden with deep racial overtones-only dropping the position recently.
Donald Trump, the Republican candidate whose divisive rhetoric and scandal-ridden campaign has failed to dent his popularity among white voters who feel they have been left behind by globalisation, was booed by onlookers when he voted for himself in New York City.
The two men have had nearly no one-on-one contact previously. As the meeting concluded and journalists scrambled out of the Oval Office, Obama smiled at his successor and explained the unfolding scene.
“What we’re seeing is a country completely divided”, Jeronimo Cortina, a political science professor at University of Houston, said.
If Trump finished off the stunning upset, he would govern with a Congress fully under Republican control.
Both candidates had historically low popularity ratings, although Trump’s were worse than Clinton’s, in an election that many voters characterized as a choice between two unpleasant alternatives.
Trump later announced that Clinton conceded in a phone call to him. He said: “We can’t get started fast enough, whether it’s health care or immigration”. “And they’re talking about it all over the world”, he said at a rally in Miami last week during the race’s furious final stretch. And we’re looking at jobs. Trump stood at 266 to Clinton’s 218. The administration noted that as president-elect, Trump is entitled to the same daily intelligence briefing as Obama receives – one that includes information on US covert operations, information gleaned about world leaders and other data gathered by America’s 17 intelligence agencies. He has promised to deport millions of immigrants who don’t have papers, to build a wall along the US border with Mexico and to bargain with foreign governments such as those of Russian Federation and China. He said he’d congratulated Trump by phone and invited him to sit down together at the White House.
During a brief news conference Wednesday afternoon, the president said he called Trump around 3:30 a.m.to congratulate him on the victory. “We’re on to the next phase”.
Trump flew from NY to Washington on his private jet without that “pool” of reporters, photographers and television cameras that have traveled with presidents and presidents-elect.
Critical battleground states broke Trump’s way.
It was unsurprising, then, that the mood at the White House was despondent the day after Trump’s triumph. But they liked that Trump spoke to them when they felt ignored – by the professional class, the Washington establishment and the media elites – and was willing to annoy and disrupt them all.
Speaking at a victory party in New York, Trump was gracious toward Clinton and called for unity. The Obama coalition did not turn out for Hillary Clinton.
Clinton went into the day with a slim opinion poll lead and a more obvious route to winning the key states that will decide the electoral college. She said they would meet possibly on Thursday. “We will all come together as never before”. “But we don’t have any firm word as to when that will be”. She or he will preside over an improving economy that is nevertheless leaving many behind and a military battling new terror threats. Bob Corker were also expected to be under consideration for foreign policy posts.
President Barack Obama’s speech, for many, is a reflection of what Americans will miss forever.
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In Georgia, majorities of whites with and without college degrees backed Trump.
