|
Post by Admin on Nov 9, 2016 18:26:37 GMT
America woke up Wednesday to a new and unexpected reality — Donald J. Trump will be the next president of the United States. In a resounding rebuke to the political establishment, the Manhattan mogul and reality TV star was elected the 45th commander in chief following one of the most bitter and wildly unpredictable campaigns in the nation's history. Trump, in an upset for the ages, defeated former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by running the table in battleground states across the country — from Florida and North Carolina to Ohio and Pennsylvania. He declared victory Tuesday night before a large crowd of enthusiastic supporters, pledging to help unite the country after his rancorous battle with the Democratic nominee. "Now it's time for America to bind the wounds of division," Trump said at the Midtown Hilton in New York City. "I say it is time for us to come together as one united people."
|
|
|
Post by Admin on Nov 10, 2016 18:28:26 GMT
Hillary Clinton called on President-elect Donald Trump Wednesday to be a "president for all Americans" during a gracious, somber speech before a crestfallen crowd. "This is painful, and it will be for a long time,” Clinton said in a 12-minute concession speech at the New Yorker Hotel in which tears briefly welled up in her eyes. "We have seen that the nation is more divided than we thought.” Wearing a purple and black suit and showing few signs of bitterness at her stunning defeat, Clinton spoke directly to the women who supported her.
|
|
|
Post by Admin on Nov 11, 2016 18:52:14 GMT
It was perhaps the unthinkable: President Obama meeting with his successor at the White House in the first step to carry out the peaceful transition of power in the American Republic — and it's Donald Trump. President-elect Trump, who rose to political fame by falsely questioning the birth place of the sitting president, said he had "great respect" for President Obama, called him a "very fine man" and said he would seek his "counsel" in the future. Trump, who noted that the two had never met before, said they were slated to speak for maybe 10 to 15 minutes, but the meeting, which lasted more than an hour and a half, could have gone on even longer. Trump said they talked about "difficulties" around the world, but also accomplishments. "I very much look forward to dealing with the president in the future, including counsel," Trump said. "He's— he explained some of the difficulties, some of the high-flying assets, and some of the really great things that have been achieved."
|
|
|
Post by Admin on Nov 12, 2016 18:33:21 GMT
Protesters took to the streets Wednesday in at least 10 cities to march against president-elect Donald Trump - and numerous college students and faculty leaders took to social media to announce support groups and even postponed exams. Protests were underway in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington, D.C., Portland, Ore., St. Paul, Minn. and several other cities. An estimated 2,000 protesters shouted angrily in downtown Seattle, expressing their frustration at the Trump victory over Democrat and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who won 228 electoral votes to Trump's 279. Police in riot gear struggled to hold back scores of protesters in some of the cities as protesters chanted "Not My President" and "No Racist USA." The protests were mostly peaceful. Seattle police said they were investigating a report of a shooting near the site of the protest in that city, but it may not have involved protesters. The unrest culminated when two separate anti-Trump demonstrations converged in front of the Trump International Hotel. They chanted and yelled "Impeach Donald Trump” and toward the end yelled at police officers who stood guard at the hotel entrance.
|
|
|
Post by Admin on Nov 13, 2016 18:32:45 GMT
It’s possible Donald Trump’s upset victory this week was powered by a surge of late deciders. Or the mysterious group often referred as “shy Trump" voters somehow escaped their radar. Many in the polling industry are also second-guessing their turnout modeling, trying to discern whether there’s a serious flaw that went unnoticed. No matter the root cause, an industry already reeling from a series of misses in the United States and overseas is engaging is a round of serious introspection. While the data streams required to evaluate whether they modeled the electorate incorrectly — or whether Trump voters disproportionately wouldn’t respond to polls — won’t be available for months, already the nation’s leading professional organization of pollsters is admitting they “clearly got it wrong this time” and pledging to study the causes of the errors. “It seems like the catastrophic polling error that we’ve been fearing for decades,” said Jon Cohen, the vice president of survey research at SurveyMonkey and a former pollster for The Washington Post and the Pew Research Center. “But it may prove to be less than that.”
|
|