Clinton publicly concedes, says she hopes Trump will be ‘successful president’
Hillary Clinton, hopeful Tuesday that she was poised to shatter the nation’s “highest and hardest glass ceiling,” instead Wednesday publicly conceded the presidential race to Donald Trump, saying the nation owed “him an open mind and the chance to lead.”
“I hope that he will be a successful president for all Americans,“ Clinton told supporters, including her staff, as she tried to strike a hopeful note despite what she described as a "painful” loss.
“I still believe in American, and I always will,“ Clinton said, surrounded by her family, including former president Bill Clinton.
In introducing his running mate, Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine said Clinton “has been and is a great history maker.”
Several hours earlier, Clinton called Trump, to congratulate him on becoming the nation’s president-elect. However, she did not make an appearance before backers gathered at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center for what was expected to be a victory party.
Clinton publicly concedes, says she hopes Trump will be 'successful president'
Hillary Clinton, hopeful Tuesday that she was poised to shatter the nation’s “highest and hardest glass ceiling,” instead Wednesday publicly conceded the presidential race to Donald Trump, saying the nation owed “him an open mind and the chance to lead.”
“I hope that he will be a successful president for all Americans,“ Clinton told supporters, including her staff, as she tried to strike a hopeful note despite what she described as a "painful” loss.
“I still believe in American, and I always will,“ Clinton said, surrounded by her family, including former president Bill Clinton.
In introducing his running mate, Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine said Clinton “has been and is a great history maker.”
Above all, we, as a nation, should never, ever have another election like this one.
An ‘Obama era’ crashes as Donald Trump takes White House
Donald Trump’s stunning victory Tuesday was nothing less than a repudiation of the Obama presidency.
“Elections have consequences,” as President Obama himself said after his 2008 win. And for Obama, it’s hard to imagine a more consequential outcome Tuesday night.
With Republicans maintaining control of the House and Senate, President-elect Trump would be in a position to repeal large parts of Obama’s legislative agenda, repeal his executive orders with a stroke of a pen, and install conservative Supreme Court justices.
Consider the opposite scenario: Clinton’s election would have ushered in a new era of American politics: The Obama era. With his former secretary of State in the White House, Obama would be able to count on on a successor who will pursue some of his most transformative and controversial policies: immigration reform, the expansion of health care and environmental regulation.
Trump has pledged to repeal every one of them.
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With defeat certain, a likely end to a Clinton dynasty
Bill Clinton spoke confidently while in Iowa last month, but he described a loss for his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as a possibility.
“We are on the verge of having the best times America has ever had if we do the right things and show the right face to the world and show the world how to walk away from the madness,” he said.
On Tuesday, in his view, America walked toward “the madness” and, in doing so, away from the Clinton family.
Celebs endorse politicos: Who’s for Clinton, who’s for Trump?
Some of these might actually surprise you! Check out the list: http://usat.ly/2faLbdn
Clinton and Trump: 10 early defining moments
If biography is destiny, that helps explain why Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are among the most dissimilar presidential candidates ever to face off on Election Day.
Rarely has ambition, in such different forms, taken such different routes toward the White House.
Here, for each candidate, are five defining moments that occurred before most Americans got to know them — Clinton before the White House and the State Department, Trump before Atlantic City and The Apprentice.
Check out our list here: http://usat.ly/2fwBi8e
Everything you need to know about the race…right now
If the election were held literally right now this is how it would unfold.
Hillary Clinton: Why you should vote for me
“We can come together to build a stronger, fairer America, or fear the future and fear each other,” Hillary Clinton wrote in an exclusive op-ed in USA TODAY.
