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Barbara Sprunt / NPR:
Here Is What Donald Trump Wants To Do In His First 100 Days — At the end of October, Donald Trump spoke in Gettysburg, Pa., and released a plan for his first 100 days in office. — The plan (below) outlines three main areas of focus: cleaning up Washington, including by imposing term limits on Congress …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
McConnell says GOP will quickly repeal Obamacare — Majority Leader Mitch McConnell signaled the Senate would move swiftly to repeal Obamacare now that the GOP Congress will have a Republican president next year. — “It's pretty high on our agenda as you know,” the Kentucky Republican said on Wednesday.
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Lauren Hodges / NPR:
GOP Leaders Make Peace With Trump In Favor Of ‘Unified Republican Government’
GOP Leaders Make Peace With Trump In Favor Of ‘Unified Republican Government’
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CBS News:
CBS News Exit Polls: How Donald Trump won the U.S. presidency — Many observers thought this presidential election would be decided by Donald Trump's polarizing rhetoric, his history of behavior toward women and his questionable qualifications for the office.
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Amanda Sakuma / NBC News:
Trump Did Better With Blacks, Hispanics Than Romney in '12: Exit Polls
Trump Did Better With Blacks, Hispanics Than Romney in '12: Exit Polls
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Tami Luhby / CNN:
How Hillary Clinton lost
How Hillary Clinton lost
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New York Times:
‘Not Our President’: Protests Spread After Donald Trump's Election — Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in Manhattan on Wednesday night and converged on Trump Tower in Midtown to protest the election of Donald J. Trump as president. — Similar protests happened in several cities across …
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Emma Whitford / Gothamist:
Trump Tower Is Now Heavily Fortified Behind Big Concrete Barriers
Trump Tower Is Now Heavily Fortified Behind Big Concrete Barriers
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Luchina Fisher / ABC News:
Lady Gaga Protests in Front of Trump Tower
Lady Gaga Protests in Front of Trump Tower
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Priebus ‘in tears’ after Trump tapes were leaked: radio host — Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus was reportedly in tears after the release of a 2005 tape in which Donald Trump — was heard making lewd comments about women. — Conservative radio host Charlie Sykes told …
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Washington Post:
How Donald Trump won: The insiders tell their story — By the spring of this year, it was clear that Americans were heading into one of the ugliest, most consequential and often bizarre presidential campaigns in memory. Donald Trump would become the improbable Republican nominee …
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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Meet Trump's Cabinet-in-waiting — President-elect Donald Trump does not have the traditional cadre of Washington insiders and donors to build out his Cabinet, but his transition team has spent the past several months quietly building a short list of industry titans and conservative activists …
Michael Wolff / Hollywood Reporter:
Trump Win Exposes Media's Smug Failures — YOUTUBE — Ads don't work, polls don't work, celebrities don't work, media endorsements don't work and ground games don't work. — The media turned itself into the opposition and, accordingly, was voted down as the new political reality emerged …
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
An American Tragedy — 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.
Max Read / New York Magazine:
Donald Trump Won Because of Facebook — A close and — to pundits, journalists, and Democrats — unexpected victory like Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's is always overdetermined, and no one particular thing pushed Trump over the edge on Tuesday night.
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The Daily Beast:
Team Trump Struggling to Fill National Security Jobs — President-Elect Donald Trump is scrambling to line up senior officials to run the government's sprawling intelligence and homeland security bureaucracy. — Team Trump is struggling to fill numerous key slots or even attract many candidates …
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Democrats face a power outage in Washington — and an identity crisis — The biggest stain on Barack Obama's political legacy may turn out to be the decimation of the Democratic Party on his watch. — The 2016 election has brought a moment of reckoning — and a new era to the party.
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Democrats are now a party without leader or direction
Democrats are now a party without leader or direction
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Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
A freakout at Wellesley College — Hillary Clinton is a Wellesley grad, but that's no excuse for this inane letter from Wellesley president Paula Johnson to the “Wellesley community”: … I have trouble reconciling the second paragraph — equity for all, regardless of gender, etc. — with the third — “women's leadership is best.”
Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
Top House Republican says he'll continue probe of Hillary Clinton's private email server — While President-elect Donald Trump pledged in his victory speech to “come together as one united people,” a top House Republican said Wednesday he will continue to investigate Hillary Clinton's use …
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Scott Walker: Get rid of the filibuster for Trump — (CNN)Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said Wednesday in the wake of Donald Trump's surprising victory that Republicans should get rid of the Senate filibuster. — Republicans maintained control of the House and Senate on Election Day …
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David Dayen / New Republic:
The “Deplorables” Got the Last Laugh — Let's face it: Liberals helped stoke the rage that elected Donald Trump. — Liberals who barely slept last night, if at all, roused on Wednesday morning wondering what the hell happened in America to create president-elect Donald J. Trump.
Washington Post:
After Trump's victory, the world is left to wonder: What happened to America? — LONDON — Allies recoiled. Adversaries rejoiced. And on the day after U.S. voters made Donald Trump the country's 45th president, the world was left to collectively wonder: What happened to America?
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Sylvan Lane / The Hill:
Dow hits all-time high after wild day of trading — The Dow Jones industrial index hit an an all-time high Wednesday, reversing a massive drop triggered by President-elect Donald Trump — 's improbable win. — The Dow surged more than 300 points briefly Wednesday afternoon, finishing with a 250-point rise.
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Reuters:
Trump due in court before Oval Office — Within a few weeks of winning the White House, President-elect Donald Trump could face another group of U.S. citizens, a federal jury in California, courtesy of a lawsuit by former students of his now-defunct Trump University who claim they were defrauded by a series of real-estate seminars.
Fortune:
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz Is ‘Stunned’ by Donald Trump's Win — Starbucks sbux CEO Howard Schultz has made no secret of his disdain for Donald Trump. — In a letter to staff on Wednesday, Schultz said he was gobsmacked by the president-elect's victory but said Americans had to respect the results.
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Stephanie Ebbs / ABC News:
Students Around the Country Walk Out to Protest President-Elect Donald Trump — High school and college students from California to Washington, D.C., held protests on Wednesday to show their opposition to Donald Trump's election as president. — Students at American University in Washington, D.C., protested on campus.
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Senator Kevin de León:
Joint Statement from California Legislative Leaders on Result of Presidential Election — SACRAMENTO - California Senate President pro Tempore Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) and California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D-Paramount) released the following statement on the results of the President election:
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Ayotte concedes to Hassan in New Hampshire — GOP Sen. Kelly Ayotte conceded to Democrat Maggie Hassan Wednesday evening, declining to pursue a recount in the nation's closest Senate race and tipping a second seat to Democrats after Tuesday's election. — Hassan led Ayotte by just 1,019 votes …
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Bill Chappell / NPR:
Shades Of 2000? Clinton Surpasses Trump In Popular Vote Tally — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton finds herself on the wrong end of an electoral split, moving ahead in the popular vote but losing to President-elect Donald Trump in the electoral college, according to the latest numbers emerging Wednesday.
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Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
Democrats, Trump, and the Ongoing, Dangerous Refusal to Learn the Lesson of Brexit — The parallels between the U.K.'s shocking approval of the Brexit referendum in June and the U.S.' even more shocking election of Donald Trump as president last night are overwhelming.
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Garrison Keillor / Washington Post:
Trump voters will not like what happens next — Garrison Keillor is an author and radio personality. — So he won. The nation takes a deep breath. Raw ego and proud illiteracy have won out, and a severely learning-disabled man with a real character problem will be president.
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