Thousands take to streets in major cities to protest Trump election (Losers)

Anti-Trump protests erupt in major US cities.

Thousands of people coast-to-coast took to the streets Wednesday night to protest Donald Trump’s election, disrupting traffic, chanting anti-Trump slogans and some ending up in handcuffs.
From New England to heartland cities like Kansas City and along the West Coast, demonstrators bore flags and effigies of the president-elect, disrupting traffic and declaring that they refused to accept Trump's victory.
Some California cities saw heated tensions over Trump’s election. Thousands of protesters burned a giant papier mache Trump head in Los Angeles and started fires in Oakland intersections.
Los Angeles demonstrators also beat a Trump piñata and sprayed the Los Angeles Times building and news vans with anti-Trump profanity. One protester outside LA City Hall read a sign that simply said "this is very bad."
Late in the evening several hundred people blocked one of the city's busiest freeways, U.S. 101 between downtown and Hollywood.
Los Angeles police told CBS Los Angeles that at least 13 people were arrested in the protests.
In Oakland, several thousand people gathered in Frank Ogawa Palaza, police said, clogging intersections and freeway on-ramps. According to KTVU, police used tear gas to disperse protesters after an unlawful assembly was declared.

Oakland police said one protesters was cited and a small number of protesters were arrested on suspicion of disobedience.

A similar protest in Manhattan drew about 1,000 people. Outside Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in midtown, police installed barricades to keep the demonstrators at bay.
According to NBC New York, at least 60 people were arrested in the Manhattan protests.
“America is not voting for Donald Trump’s policies, which don’t exist,” one protester told the station. “They voted for sexism, racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism.”
Other protesters echoed “Not my president” chants, which had been heard in several cities across the U.S.
In Chicago, several thousand people marched through the Loop. They gathered outside Trump Tower, chanting “Not my president!” One resident Michael Burke said he believes the president-elect stands to divide the nation and stir up a deep-seated hatred. He added there was a constitutional duty not to accept that outcome.
Hundreds of protesters gathered near Philadelphia's City Hall despite chilly, wet weather. Participants — who included both supporters of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who lost to Clinton in the primary — expressed anger at both Republicans and Democrats over the election's outcome.
In Boston, thousands of anti-Trump protesters streamed through downtown, chanting "Trump's a racist" and carrying signs that said "Impeach Trump" and "Abolish Electoral College." Clinton appears to be on pace to win the popular vote, despite losing the electoral count that decides the presidential race.
In the Midwest, protesters gathered in Minneapolis, Omaha, Nebraska and Kansas City Missouri. The Des Moines Register also reported that Iowa’s capital city saw some people protest as well, though it was kept to small numbers.
Marchers protesting Trump's election chanted and carried signs in front of the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C.
Media outlets broadcast video Wednesday night showing a peaceful crowd in front of the new downtown hotel. Many chanted "No racist USA, no Trump, no KKK."
Another group stood outside the White House. They held candles, listened to speeches and sang songs.
Dallas activists gathered by the dozens outside the city's sports arena, the American Airlines Center.
In Oregon, dozens of people blocked traffic in downtown Portland, burned American flags and forced a delay for trains on two light-rail lines. Earlier, the protest in downtown drew several Trump supporters, who taunted the demonstrators with signs. A lone Trump supporter was chased across Pioneer Courthouse Square and hit in the back with a skateboard before others intervened.
Many held anti-Trump and Black Lives Matter signs and chanted slogans, including "Misogyny has to go," and "The people united, will never be defeated."
Five people were shot and injured in an area near the protest, but police said the shootings and the demonstration were unrelated.
Back in New York, several groups of protesters caused massive gridlock as police mobilized to contain them under a light rain.
They held signs that read "Trump Makes America Hate" and chanted "hey, hey, ho, ho Donald Trump has got to go." and "Impeach Trump."

Ugly aftermath: Liberal media types savage Trump, his supporters and the press for upset victory

Things are getting ugly in the liberal precincts of the media.
As the news business tries to grapple with the previously unthinkable—a Trump presidency—some of its left-wing practitioners are venting their rage, both at the country and at the press.
Jamelle Bouie, an African-American and a top political writer for Slate, tweeted: “I didn’t quite understand how much white people hated us, or could at least live with that hate. Now I do.”
That was before Bouie apologized for misunderstanding the election but after he wrote that Trump “all but cried [the N-word].”
 Jeff Jarvis, a liberal media critic, author and blogger who directs a journalism program at the City University of New York, blamed the press, tweeting:
“I fear that journalism is irredeemably broken, a failure. My profession failed to inform the public about the fascist they are electing.”
Jarvis also wrote: “I'll say it: This is the victory of the uneducated and uninformed.” (He blamed others as well, including his race for “inherent racism,” his gender for “sexism” and himself.)
Can anyone seriously suggest that the press didn't go all out in investigating every aspect of Trump's life and career? But if you're convinced he's a fascist, you think journalists somehow fell down on the job.
Now let me say that I understand passions are running high in the wake of a bitter and divisive election. Donald Trump said things during the campaign that many people understandably found offensive. And since Tuesday morning began with the widespread expectation that Hillary Clinton would become the first woman to win the White House, I understand the crushing disappointment for those commentators who were sympathetic to her cause.
But the vitriol is deeply unattractive—and goes to the heart of why the media misjudged Trump, and his supporters, for a year and a half.
The Republican nominee pulled off the incredibly difficult feat of capturing Michigan and Wisconsin because he struck a deep chord, there and elsewhere, with white, paycheck-to-paycheck Americans who are angry and frustrated at a political system that does little for them. And most journalists who work for national news organizations are simply out of touch with those folks.
Imagine how these liberal journalists would have reacted if Clinton, who gave a gracious concession speech yesterday, had won and Trump supporters were still calling her a liar and criminal who should be locked up.
To dump on the people who back Trump as a bunch of dumb, racist yahoos is to say that they’re simply too idiotic and prejudiced to vote in their own self-interest, unlike we the media, who know what's best for them.
Instead we have commentators and media outlets on the left doubling and tripling down. The Huffington Post, which embarrassed itself by long relegating Trump to the entertainment section, started with this headline: “Nightmare: President Trump.” Followed by “Mourning in America.” Although the website now plans to drop the editor’s note on every story declaring Trump to be a racist, sexist xenophobe.
David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker, wrote:
“The election of Donald Trump to the Presidency is nothing less than a tragedy for the American republic, a tragedy for the Constitution, and a triumph for the forces, at home and abroad, of nativism, authoritarianism, misogyny, and racism. Trump’s shocking victory, his ascension to the Presidency, is a sickening event in the history of the United States and liberal democracy.”
Others played up the racial angle. Van Jones, a CNN commentator who once served in the Obama White House, called Trump’s win “a white-lash against a black president.” President Obama, though, was not on the ballot.
Still others played the sexism card. Salon called Hillary’s loss “The Misogyny Apocalypse…It was unimaginable that America would self-destruct rather than elect a female president.”
Keep in mind that many conservative commentators were also in the #NeverTrump camp. But National Review congratulated him in an editorial, while hoping he can win the trust of the part of the country that views him as unfit. The Weekly Standard, whose editor Bill Kristol was an implacable foe, ran a piece by Fred Barnes titled “Trump Didn’t Split the GOP—He Strengthened It.”
Back in 1968, the Washington Post cartoonist Herblock made a decision when Richard Nixon, whom he had always portrayed as a sinister-looking guy with a 5 o’clock shadow, won the election. He declared that he gave every new president a clean shave, and Nixon’s stubble vanished.
As the country prepares for the next four years, Trump’s liberal critics—while obviously entitled to battle the 45^th president--might show a similar graciousness.
Howard Kurtz is a Fox News analyst and the host of "MediaBuzz" (Sundays 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET). He is the author of five books and is based in Washington. Follow him at @HowardKurtz. Click here for more information on Howard Kurtz.

To all of the actors that said they would leave America if Trump won the election. BYE BYE!

Good Riddance!… These 23 Hollywood Idiots Said They’d Leave If Trump Wins – Let’s Hold Them To It

These Hollywood idiots said they would leave the country if Donald Trump wins the election.
Let’s hold them to it.

1. Jon Stewart
Who? Political satirist.
Where would he move? Another planet.
“I would consider getting in a rocket and going to another planet, because clearly this planet’s gone bonkers,” he told reporters.
2. Chelsea Handler
Who? Comedian.
Where would she move? Spain.“I did buy a house in another country just in case, so all of these people that threaten to leave the country and then don’t, I will leave the country,” she said on Live with Kelly and Michael(Weirdly, she called Trump charming in the same interview.)
3. Neve Campbell
Who? House of Cards actress.
Where would she move? Canada.
“His honesty is terrifying,” she told Huffington Post UK.
4. Barry Diller
Who? Founder of IAC Interactive.
Where would he move? Unspecified.
“If Donald Trump doesn’t fall, I’ll either move out of the country or join the resistance,” he told Bloomberg.
5. Lena Dunham
Who? Creator of Girls.
Where would she move? Vancouver.
“I know a lot of people have been threatening to do this, but I really will,” she said at the Matrix Awards.
6. Keegan-Michael Key
Who? Star of Key & Peele.
Where would he move? Canada.
“It’s easy. It’s like 10 minutes from Detroit and that’s where I’m from,” he told TMZ.
7. Chloë Sevigny
Who? Actress and guest star in Portlandia.
Where would she move? Nova Scotia.
She answered simply, “Nova Scotia” to a question of where she would move if Trump were elected.
8. Al Sharpton
Who? Activist.
Where would he move? Out of here.
“If Donald Trump is the nominee, I’m open to support anyone, while I’m also reserving my ticket out of here if he wins,” he said at a press conference.
9. Natasha Lyonne
Who? Actress in Orange Is the New Black.
Where would she move? A mental hospital.
“[I’ll move] to a mental hospital for a while because you’re like ‘why is this happening?'” she said.
10. Eddie Griffin
Who? Comedian.
Where would he move? Africa.
“He’s good at making money, but he’s ignorant…If Trump wins, I’m moving to Africa,” he told DJ Vlad.
11. Spike Lee
Who? Director of Malcolm X.
Where would he move? …Brooklyn.
If Trump wins, he’ll be “moving back to the republic of Brooklyn, New York,” he reported to Vanity Fair.
12. Amber Rose
Who? Model.
Where would she move? Unspecified.
“I can’t even think about it! I’m moving, I’m out! I can’t. And I am taking my son with me!” she told US Weekly.
13. Samuel L. Jackson
Who? Actor.
Where would he move? South Africa.
“He’s just running for popularity. C’mon, just let it go,” he said on The View.
14. Cher
Who? Singer.
Where would she move? Jupiter
“IF HE WERE TO BE ELECTED, IM MOVING TO JUPITER >:|” she tweeted.
15. George Lopez
Who? Comedian and star of George Lopez.
Where would he move? Mexico.
“If he wins, he won’t have to worry about immigration, we’ll all go back,” he told TMZ.
16. Barbra Streisand
Who? Singer.
Where would she move? Australia or Canada.
“He has no facts. I don’t know, I can’t believe it. I’m either coming to your country [Australia], if you’ll let me in, or Canada,” she told Australian journalist Michael Usher.
17. Raven-Symoné
Who? Actress and host of The View.
Where would she move? Canada.
“My confession for this election is if any Republican gets nominated, I’m going to move to Canada with my entire family. I already have my ticket,” she said on The View.
Note: Her leaving was contingent on any Republican candidate winning the election–not just Trump.
18. Whoopi Goldberg
Who? Actress and host of The View.
Where would she move? Unspecified.
“I don’t want it to be America. Maybe it’s time for me to move, you know,” she said.
19. Omari Hardwick
Who? Actor in Power.
Where would he move? Italy.
“I’ll move from Denver to Italy… If Donald Trump wins the presidency, I’m out,” he told The Wrap.
20. Miley Cyrus
Who? Pop star.
Where would she move? Unspecified.
“My heart is broken into a 100000 pieces…I am moving if this is my president! I don’t say things I don’t mean!” she wrote in an Instagram post.
21. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Who? Supreme Court Justice.
Where would she move? New Zealand.
“I can’t imagine what the country would be with Donald Trump as our president… Now it’s time for us to move to New Zealand,” she told The New York Times.
22. Amy Schumer
Who? Comedian and actress.
Where would she move? Spain.
“I will need to learn to speak Spanish because I will move to Spain or somewhere… It’s beyond my comprehension if Trump won. It’s too crazy,” she told BBC Newsnight.
23. Katie Hopkins
Who? British columnist.
Where would she move? America!

Republicans projected to keep control of Senate, House

Republicans were projected to retain control of the House and Senate after fending off Democratic challenges across the country on Election Day.
Democrats, despite having been optimistic about this year’s chances of retaking the majority in the upper chamber, failed to gain the five seats needed. The Democrats’ candidate beat GOP incumbent Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk, as expected, but the party lost most other tight races.
As of early Wednesday morning, Republicans were on track to see their 54-46 majority erode only slightly. They could end up with at least 52 seats, according to the AP.
Republican as expected also kept control of the House. The GOP entered Election Day with a 59-seat House advantage, so Democrats would have had to gain 30 seats to take control of the chamber. They will instead likely pick up 10 to 20 seats, falling short of majority control.
“House Republicans won tonight thanks to our members’ relentless focus on the issues important to voters in their districts," said Oregon Rep. Greg Walden, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee.
In the bid to control the Senate, Fox News projected the outcomes of several key races including victories for Republican Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida, Rob Portman of Ohio, Richard Burr of North Carolina, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, all fending off tough challenges to win reelection.
Portman, Burr, Johnson and Toomey were among a handful of incumbent Republicans whom Democrats had targeted early for defeat -- in their bid to win the Senate majority.
"Both parties have to work together to find common ground," Portman said in his victory speech. "The best way to do that is to get things done. I’ll do everything in my powers to expand opportunity for everybody.”
The race in Louisiana for the seat of retiring GOP Sen. David Vitter will as expected go to a run-off.
Democrat Foster Campbell and Republican John Kennedy emerged as the top vote-getters in a field of nearly two-dozen candidates. But neither could win more than 50 percent of the vote to win the seat.
The only major race that remained too close to call into Wednesday morning was the Senate contest in New Hampshire between GOP incumbent Sen. Kelly Ayotte and Democratic challenger Gov. Maggie Hassan.
Ayotte is trying to appeal to the state’s notoriously independent electorate while staying loyal to her Washington Republican base and supporters like the National Rifle Association and the billionaire, libertarian-minded Koch Brothers.
Ayotte said early that she’d support Trump but did not endorse him. She then called Trump a “role model,” only to retract the statement after another offensive Trump comment, then totally withdrew her support.
In North Carolina, Burr defeated Democratic challenger Deborah Ross, to serve a third Senate term. And Johnson beat former Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold in a rematch of their 2010 race.
In Pennsylvania, Toomey defeated Katie McGinty, a former Clinton administration adviser who was handpicked by Washington Democrats.
Rubio keeps a Senate seat for Republicans that Democrats had hoped to win after he essentially abandoned the seat for his ultimately-failed presidential bid.
However, Rubio re-entered the race in June and held off a tough challenge from Democratic Rep. Tim Murphy to win a second term.
Republicans also held onto the Senate seat of retiring Indiana GOP senator Dan Coats.
Rep. Todd Young kept the seat by fending off a strong, surprise challenge from former Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh, who muscled into the race in mid-July.
But in Illinois, incumbent GOP Sen. Mark Kirk was defeated by Democratic challenger Rep. Tammy Duckworth.
Kirk was considered the most vulnerable Republican senator in the 2016 election cycle. Duckworth is a veteran who lost both of her legs in the Iraq War.
Kirk, a first-term senator who served in Congress for nearly 15 years, was seeking reelection in Democrat-leaning Illinois. He dimmed his comeback chances last month by insulting Duckworth’s Thai ancestry.
“I'm here because of the miracles that occurred 12 years ago ...  … in a dusty field in Iraq,” Duckworth told supporters afterward. “Some I can explain, like the bravery of my crew. And some I cannot, like the shrapnel from the explosion passing through my helicopter spinning rotor blades and not destroy it, allowing us to land. … I live every day trying to honor you.”
Democrats liked their chances of retaking the Senate practically within days of losing the majority in 2014 -- considering they had to defend just 10 incumbents, compared to Republicans who would have to spend far more money and other resources to protect 24 sitting senators.
Republicans had a very short 2016 wish list -- take the seat of arch-political rival Nevada Sen. Harry Reid, the retiring top Senate Democrat.
Republicans had a top-tier competitor in Rep. Joe Heck.
But all of the resources they put into the race couldn't defeat Democratic nominee Catherine Cortez Masto or change the fact that Nevada is a liberal-leaning state anchored by the Las Vegas area, home to a large Hispanic population, which overwhelmingly supports Democratic candidates.
In Ohio, GOP Gov. John Kasich’s refusal to support Donald Trump made Portman’s task of winning a second term even tougher.
But the state’s older, solidly-white population and a lackluster performance by Democrat challenger and former Gov. Ted Strickland gave Portman the win, after having built a nearly 20-point lead before polls opened Tuesday.
Republicans pulled out a win in Missouri, but it took incumbent GOP Sen. Roy Blunt the political fight of his life. He defeated Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander, an upstart Democrat with military experience who can assemble an AR-15 blindfolded.
In Indiana, Republicans had a solid candidate in Young, a three-term House member.
But Bayh’s surprise decision to enter the race -- with a $10 million war chest -- made it much more competitive and expensive.
The race remains surprisingly close until the end, amid disclosures about Bayh’s profitable connections to K Street and Wall Street.
"When I grew up here in Indiana, my dad told me almost every day, 'If I worked really hard, good things would happen.' Well dad, this is a good thing," Young, a former Marine, said after the race. "Tonight was a great victory, not for me, but for the state of Indiana."
Republicans didn’t expect such a hyper-competitive race in North Carolina. But Ross, a former American Civil Liberties Union lawyer and state representative, had little state-wide name recognition.
Toomey's challeger in Pennsylvania was Katie McGinty, among the handful of 2016 Democratic candidates whom political analysts said ran an uninspiring race. The Pennsylvania race was essentially deadlocked since the start of the election cycle.

Trump triumphs -- Media's 'primal scream' is heard round the world

No, America, that wasn’t an earthquake. That was a media scream that registered 11 on the Richter scale as Republican Donald Trump defied media demands and went on to win the presidential election in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Hillary Clinton called Donald Trump to concede.
A nearly unanimous media failed to carry the unpopular Hillary across the finish line. Once again, America rejected the liberal Democrat. Advil set the tone early with a comment: “Politics giving you a #migraine? Advil® Migraine is the best candidate for pain relief.” CNN commentator David Axelrod called it a “primal scream.” ABC’s Terry Moran called it “a rejection of the neoliberal world order that has been the consensus around the world.” CNN commentator and former Obama green jobs czar Van Jones called the election a “White-lash against a changing country.”
When it appeared that Hillary would not concede, after campaign chairman John Podesta appeared before her supporters in Manhattan and told everyone to go home and get some rest, even some in media criticized her. USA Today Washington correspondent Paul Singer was typical: “Stunned that @HillaryClinton did not concede. If @realDonaldTrump pulled that, people would go bananas.”
The election was a national rejection of both the traditional media and the Hollywood elite who piled on money, endorsements, appearances and offensive videos telling people to vote. Celebrities went full-on insane. Actor Mark Ruffalo vowed to do a nude scene if Clinton won. Madonna said she would perform oral sex on Clinton voters. It was so overboard that it might well have caused voters to just say no to all of star media.
The night went from what CNN’s Wolf Blitzer called a “real nail-biter” to one his co-anchor Jake Tapper said is, "going to put the polling industry out of business.” Left-wing Fusion referred to a “Terrifying/exciting state-by-state #ElectionNight.” The New York Times prediction tracker went from overwhelmingly predicting a Clinton win to 94 percent for Trump as the clock neared 11 p.m. Even when Hillary won Virginia, the Times was sending out downbeat emails saying she “preserved a slim path to victory.”
Trump supporter and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee joked: “Wouldn't wanna be under that giant glass ceiling if Hillary is forced to concede. That party might end like Carrie's prom.” Fox News contributor and commentator Richard Grenell blasted the news media. “The media is for sure losing tonight no matter who pulls this off. How wrong they were.”
What media and pollsters had predicted would be an early night turned into a long contest. Around 8:40 p.m., liberals and media staff started to panic. Huffington Post Senior Political Reporter and Politics Managing Editor Amanda Terkel showed the tension. “Office debate right now: ‘Trump might win!’ ‘Trump ain't going to win.’”
By 9 pm ET it spread. CNN commentator Sally Kohn showed the typical liberal reaction. “IT SHOULDN'T BE THIS CLOSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Former CBS anchor Dan Rather summed it up. “Nearing cardiac arrest time for team Clinton.” Global Editorial Director, The Huffington Post’s Howard Fineman said what was on many lips: “This is starting -- starting -- to look like an American #Brexit.”
The media pointed fingers at FBI head James Comey. Pundit Michael Smerconish blamed him for the vote. “Changing my @TIME 2016 person of yr prediction (who most influenced news) to James Comey #ElectionNight.” Atlantic Senior Editor Adam Serwer put it succinctly: “Congrats to the New York FBI office.” He went further later: “Congratulations to Vladimir Putin, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.”
Atlantic Senior Editor David Frum found another villain – Russia. “We may be living through the most successful Russian intelligence operation since the Rosenbergs stole the A-bomb.”
Daily Beast columnist Jonathan Alter blamed it on masculinity. “Trump didn't win because of Comey. He won because he's a testosterone candidate and men weren't ready for a woman president.” He continued to hammer out hyperbole: “America has never faced such a crisis before. World War II was 4 years but US always fairly sure we would win. This will be a new menace.”
Journalists had earlier celebrated as Hillary broke the “the glass ceiling.” ABC gave up all pretense of neutrality and had former Clinton staffer and Clinton Foundation contributor George Stephanopoulos moderate election night coverage. Comedian Emo Phillips reflected Hollywood’s agenda in one short Tweet: “I don't get it. We had all the funny tweets.”
The New York Times showed that media bias remained an issue into election night, writing that, “an intense public distrust in the media is threatening the networks’ traditional role as election night scorekeeper.” In a think piece discussion about coverage of the race, the Times controversial media columnist Jim Rutenberg said Trump, “received coverage of a billionaire reality-television star who turned politics into performance art.”
He followed that up with one of the worst media bubble comments of the election: “The press needs to explore the frustration of those many Americans who think free trade’s gone too far; that immigration threatens the national fabric; and that insiders from Washington, Wall Street and the media have rigged the system against them.”
Election Day brought out the strange in the media, as well. CBS Evening News veteran Bob Schieffer wondered if the nation were “enduring some kind of curse.” He added in nice biblical metaphor: “What should we expect next – that it will rain frogs? I wouldn’t bet against it.”
Pollster Nate Silver crowed early because he had been criticized for giving Trump a better chance to win the World Series than Trump had of becoming president. The Cubs won. “This doesn't seem like an election in which one candidate had a 99% chance of winning tbh,” he Tweeted.
Washington Post quasi-conservative columnist Jennifer Rubin bashed the GOP in her election day screed, urging Republicans to help Clinton succeed. “Do I think all this is likely? No, but then we are among the thousands of center-right Americans who think the solution to the sclerotic GOP may very well be a new political party.”
Earlier in the day, The Washington Post described the ballot with a mountain full of understatement: “An acrimonious race reaches an endpoint.” Of course, the Post probably described WWII as an international disagreement.
The foreign press chimed in, too. German newspapers warned of a “Trumpocalypse” and called the GOP candidate a “Horror-Clown.” The Daily Mail described the vote as, “Clinton, Trump fight for soul of divided US before vote.”
Far left media grew more bizarre as the day went on. Huffington Post featured a story headlined: “I Voted With My Vagina And I’m Proud Of It.” Buzzfeed Senior editor Rachel W. Miller retweeted a Cosmo article on anal sex with this classic comment: “Pretty sure this experience is worse than any cringey butt sex, Cosmo, but ok.”
As the perfect conclusion to the night, Huffington Post decided to stop using the controversial tagline it had on Trump stories. “The Huffington Post’s editor's note calling Donald Trump as a ‘racist’ and ‘xenophobe’ is no more, a source in the newsroom tells POLITICO.”

A loud cheer for the Silent Majority that lifted Trump to victory

Our long national nightmare is over and the Republic has been saved.
I’m originally from the Deep South. My father, who passed away in 2006, was a blue-collar worker. We lived paycheck-to-paycheck. We went to church on Sunday. We lived a quiet life – just like many families in so-called “Fly-Over Country.”
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My father was a member of the Silent Majority and had he been alive he would’ve cast his vote for Donald J. Trump.
I’ve lived in New York City for more than a decade now – and I’ve seen firsthand the contempt for country folks like my father – people from rural America.
As I wrote in my book, “God Less America,” I feel like a “Duck Dynasty” guy living in a Miley Cyrus world – where right is wrong, wrong is right – it’s as if our values have been turned upside down.
President Obama called us bitter. He said we were the kinds of people who cling to guns and religion.
Time and time again he stood on foreign soil and apologized for our nation. And to this day it remains unclear whether he believes the United States is the most exceptional nation on Earth.
Hillary Clinton called us deplorable – irredeemable.
"To just be grossly generalistic, you can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the 'basket of deplorables. Right? Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it."
The only thing deplorable was Hillary Clinton's basket of grossly generalistic comments.
"And unfortunately, there are people like that and he has lifted them up," she went on to say. "He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people, now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets offensive, hateful, mean-spirited rhetoric."
Her campaign portrayed Conservative Catholicism as a “bastardization of the faith” and seemed to imply that Evangelicals are a bunch of impoverished country bumpkins.
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We were mocked by Hollywood and dismissed by academics. We were marginalized by the media – bullied and belittled by sex and gender revolutionaries.
But all that changed on Election Day – when Donald Trump became a champion for the Silent Majority. He gave us a voice.  And now the Silent Majority is silent no more.
We the People have decided that it’s time to drain the swamp.
It’s time to restore traditional values. It’s time to protect the Constitution. It’s time to defend our sovereignty. It’s time to save unborn babies.
It’s time to stand up for the American working man and bring jobs back from China and Mexico. It’s time to eradicate the scourge of ObamaCare.
And it’s time to hire the bricklayers so they can start building that giant wall.
The Deplorable Americans have spoken – and on the eighth day of November in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Sixteen – we have decided to Make America Great Again.
Todd Starnes is host of Fox News & Commentary, heard on hundreds of radio stations. His latest book is "God Less America: Real Stories From the Front Lines of the Attack on Traditional Values." Follow Todd on Twitter @ToddStarnes and find him on Facebook.

World leaders welcome Trump presidential victory with mixed reactions

Donald Trump defied the polls and pundits until the very end, defeating Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in Tuesday’s presidential election.
His win comes as a “wake-up call” to establishment politicians, as his win exposes the dissatisfaction with the way politicians have run things in the past.
Trump acknowledged during his acceptance speech early Wednesday morning saying America will “get along with all other nations willing to get along with us.”
The world took notice to this historic election as well. Some responses were hopeful for foreign relations to continue smoothly.
Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Donald Trump on winning the U.S. presidential election. The Kremlin said in a brief statement that Putin expressed "his hope to work together for removing Russian-American relations from their crisis state."
Putin also said he has "confidence that building a constructive dialogue between Moscow and Washington that is based on principles of equality, mutual respect and a real accounting each other's positions, in the interests of our peoples and the world community."
Turkey's justice minister Bekiz Bozdag also commented on the election telling the state-run Anadolu Agency on Wednesday, "in essence our relations are relations between two states and we hope that under the new presidential term the Turkish-U.S. relations will be much better. That is our expectation."
A top Palestinian official acknowledged on Wednesday that he doesn’t expect the U.S. positions to change on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict under Donald Trump.
Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said, "We have been preparing so that we can respond to any situation because our stance is that our alliance with the U.S. remains to be the cornerstone of our diplomacy whoever becomes the next president."
During his speech on Wednesday morning, Trump had a message of hope saying he plans for America to “deal fairly with everyone, all people, and all nations.”

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In his campaign he has caused a great deal of controversy with his plans to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, bring trade cases against China and his plans to deport all criminal aliens out of the country.
While some comments of Trump’s victory were positive, others were not as warm.
France’s Socialist government openly endorsed Clinton. French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said France would work with the new president, but expressed concern saying, "We don't want a world where egoism triumphs.” Ayrault added, "There is a part of our electorate that feels ... abandoned," including people who feel "left behind" by globalization.” Fact: Have the French forgotten that America freed them from the Nazis in world war 2.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault

Indonesians called to question Americans who voted for the billionaire on social media. Some people say that under a Trump administration they fear they'll be prevented from visiting relatives and friends who live in America or traveling there as tourists.
A couple of Chinese participants at a U.S. Embassy event in Beijing say they'd welcome a Trump presidency, while another says he thinks the Republican candidate projects a flawed image of the United States.
Speaking of Cuba's leaders, Communist Party member and noted economist and political scientist Esteban Morales told the Telesur network that "they must be worried because I think this represents a new chapter."
Carlos Alzugaray, a political scientist and retired Cuban diplomat, said a Trump victory could, however, please some hard-liners in the Cuban leadership who worried that Cuba was moving too close to the United States too quickly.
Many people joked threatening to leave the U.S. in the event of a Trump win, however Canada and the prospect of Americans moving there appears to have drawn so much online interest that it has knocked out the country's immigration website.
Searches for "move to Canada" and "immigrate to Canada" spiked Tuesday night as election returns favored Republican nominee Donald Trump. "Canada" was a leading U.S. trend on Twitter, with more than 1 million tweets.
The NATO chief discussed Trump’s call for counter-terrorism efforts saying he’s ready to discuss his push further but a collective defense of Europe is needed.
Trump’s speech was one of inclusion, a desire for change and a new chapter for America with a message of creating a nation for all and helping world relations adding, “We will have great relations all around the world.”

Trump wins presidency, defeats Clinton in historic election upset

Donald Trump: I will be president for all Americans

Donald Trump, defying the pundits and polls to the end, defeated Hillary Clinton in Tuesday’s presidential election and claimed an establishment-stunning victory that exposes the depth of voter dissatisfaction – and signals immense changes ahead for American policy at home and abroad.
Seventeen months after the billionaire tycoon’s Trump Tower entrance into the race, the first-time candidate once dismissed by the political elite will become the 45^th president, Fox News projects.
Speaking to cheering supporters early Wednesday morning at his victory party in New York City, the Republican candidate and now president-elect said Clinton called to congratulate him, and Fox News confirms she has conceded. Despite their hard-fought campaign, Trump praised Clinton for her service and said “it is time for us to come together as one united people.”
“I will be president for all Americans,” Trump vowed, after a brief introduction by running mate Mike Pence.
TRUMP'S AGENDA: WHAT HIS ELECTION MEANS FOR AMERICA
Sounding a call to “reclaim our country’s destiny,” Trump declared: “The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer. … America will no longer settle for anything less than the best.”
Trump will be the oldest president in U.S. history, entering the Oval Office at age 70. With her defeat, Clinton falls short in her second bid to become the first female president of the United States.
Though Clinton called Trump, her campaign initially did not concede defeat. Earlier, her campaign chairman John Podesta addressed supporters nearby in New York and said several states were “too close to call.”
Clinton herself did not appear at the rally. Podesta had urged supporters to “head home” and said they would not have “anything more to say tonight.”
Amid Trump’s victory, Republicans also were projected to hold onto their majority in the House and Senate, improving Trump’s chances of advancing his agenda in office.
A surge of support in key battlegrounds – and especially surprise victories in states like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – helped propel Trump to victory. The GOP nominee built a commanding lead early on with wins in heavily contested North Carolina, Florida, Ohio and Iowa.
Clinton won her share of battlegrounds, including Virginia and Nevada and Colorado, but could not make up for Trump’s strong performance in other states thought to favor the Democrat.
The billionaire businessman’s victory marked a remarkable upset and turnaround, after he had been complaining amid a rough patch just weeks ago the vote could be “rigged” against him.
Clinton was still thought to have the clear advantage in the electoral map going into Tuesday’s vote, yet the polls had been tightening in the race’s closing days.
His victory could demonstrate just how much the dynamics were shifting in his favor – and perhaps how his true support was elusive all along to pollsters and others gauging the race.
Without question, his bid was helped over the last two weeks by a burst of setbacks for his opponent.
Eleven days before the election, FBI Director James Comey announced the bureau was revisiting the investigation into Clinton’s personal email server use while secretary of state, after discovering new messages on the laptop of disgraced ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner, the estranged husband of a top Clinton aide. He closed the case again on Sunday, but the political damage may have been done. And the WikiLeaks release of emails hacked from Podesta’s account became a constant distraction for the campaign, as the messages revealed infighting, internal concerns about the Clinton family’s foundation and even evidence that the now-head of the Democratic National Committee leaked town hall questions to Clinton during the primaries.
This at times overshadowed the numerous allegations of sexual harassment and assault against Trump that came out in October (which he denies), following leaked footage from over a decade ago showing Trump making crude comments about women.
Trump’s victory marks the second time Clinton was thwarted in her bid to become the first female U.S. president, having been defeated by President Obama in their 2008 primary race.
But Trump has been able to defy expectations from the start. He defeated a deep field of 16 competitors during the Republican primaries – stitching together a motivated coalition of voters invigorated by his outsider, populist message; throwing his rivals off their talking points during a raucous marathon of debates; and commanding media attention throughout with his unpredictable, learn-as-he-goes campaign style.
He also defied party orthodoxy, railing against free-trade deals like NAFTA and the Trans Pacific Partnership and staking out a sometimes-confusing set of positions on foreign policy that may yet evolve. Democrats have criticized him heavily for statements expressing admiration for Russia’s Vladimir Putin and a desire to rebuild ties with Moscow.
Trump was aided by the infrastructure of the GOP, but his campaign never came close to the juggernaut operation mounted by Clinton. While she entered the final stretch of the race with an army of high-powered surrogates, Trump’s campaign was driven mainly by him, an inner circle of family members and a rotating set of top campaign advisers. Surrogates like retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani advocated aggressively for the Republican nominee, but he remained at odds with many influential elected Republicans who in some cases – as with House Speaker Paul Ryan – endorsed him, but only reluctantly. His stances on trade as well as his hardline immigration proposals – including variations on a plan to suspend Muslim immigration from certain countries – also made party brass uncomfortable.

The late emergence of a 2005 tape showing him making crude comments about women led some congressional Republicans to abandon him entirely. But even the biggest controversies seemed only to ding Trump, whose resilience in the polls could be credited to a movement of grassroots supporters who seemed to have little interest in the nominee’s tensions with the GOP establishment and saw him as the true change-maker in the election.