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5:55 PM ET, November 9, 2016

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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.
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Gregory Korte / USA Today:
Obama phones Trump, offers White House invitation  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama called President-elect Donald Trump Wednesday morning to congratulate him on his election victory and invite him to the White House on Thursday to discuss “the smooth transition of power,” the White House said.
Discussion: CNN, Politico, The Root, Daily Wire and Daily Kos
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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 …
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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Alison Kodjak / NPR:
Trump Can Kill Obamacare With Or Without Help From Congress  —  President-elect Donald Trump has promised over and over in recent months that he will repeal and replace Obamacare when he reaches the White House.  —  “Obamacare is a disaster.  You know it.  We all know it,” Trump said at a debate last month.
Discussion: TheStreet.com, STAT and Instapundit
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Carson: I'll help Trump with Obamacare replacement plan
New York Times:
U.S. Faces a Startling New Political Reality After Donald Trump's Victory
Discussion: Guardian
New York Times:
Donald Trump Is Elected President in Stunning Repudiation of the Establishment  —  Donald John Trump was elected the 45th president of the United States on Tuesday in a stunning culmination of an explosive, populist and polarizing campaign that took relentless aim at the institutions and long-held ideals of American democracy.
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Rebecca Kheel / The Hill:
ACLU to Trump: ‘See you in court’  —  The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is warning President-elect Donald Trump  —  that it will “see him in court,” threatening to use its “full firepower” if he tries to follow through on controversial campaign promises on immigration, torture and other issues.
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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Paul Krugman Comment / New York Times:
Paul Krugman: The Economic Fallout  —  It really does now look like President Donald J. Trump, and markets are plunging.  When might we expect them to recover?  —  Frankly, I find it hard to care much, even though this is my specialty.  The disaster for America and the world has so many aspects …
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Paul Krugman Comment / New York Times:
Paul Krugman: Our Unknown Country
Discussion: alan.com
Jim Newell / Slate:
The Democratic Party Establishment Is Finished  —  What a joke.  —  The Democrats will now control next to nothing above the municipal level.  Donald Trump will be president.  We are going to be unpacking this night for the rest of our lives, and lives beyond that.
Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
We are still the country that produced George Wallace.  We are still the country that killed Emmett Till.  —  Around 11:30 on Tuesday night, I left CBS News studios in New York City to take a walk and call my wife.  We talked about the election.  We talked about the very real chance of President Donald Trump.
Jon Ward / Yahoo:
Trump's victory stunned even GOP digital team  —  No one saw this coming.  Not the Trump campaign.  Not the Republican National Committee.  —  The best data inside the Trump campaign and the RNC had Donald Trump's chances of winning the presidency as a one-in-five proposition.
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Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
RNC model showed Trump losing
Discussion: GeekWire, The Atlantic and RedState
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.
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 …
Discussion: Political Wire
Melanie Zanona / The Hill:
Celebs who said they'd leave country if Trump won  —  Dozens of celebrities vowed to leave the country if Donald Trump  —  won the White House, saying they'd flee to everywhere from Canada to Jupiter.  —  The threat is a common one after any election outcome: Canada's immigration website crashed …
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:
Discussion: KTLA and 89.3 KPCC
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.
Discussion: Political Wire
Luchina Fisher / ABC News:
Lady Gaga Protests in Front of Trump Tower  —  Lady Gaga held a protest of one at Trump Tower after it became clear that Donald Trump would win the presidency.  —  Propped up on the side of a New York City sanitation truck, the Hillary Clinton supporter and native New Yorker held up a sign that read “Love trumps hate.”
Discussion: Townhall.com and abc11.com
Emma Whitford / Gothamist:
Trump Tower Is Now Heavily Fortified Behind Big Concrete Barriers  —  The NYPD is helping the Secret Service ramp up security outside Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue this afternoon to levels befitting the president-elect, according to an NYPD spokesman.  In addition to the row …
Discussion: Mediaite, The Week and Joe.My.God.
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
The forces that drove this election's media failure are likely to get worse  —  Segregated social universes, an industry moving from red states to the coasts, and mass media's revenue decline: The disconnect between two realities shows no sign of abating.  —  One way to think of the job journalism does …
Mackenziearyan / Des Moines Register:
Hundreds of Des Moines students stage walkout over Trump win  —  Hundreds of students walked out of several Des Moines-area high schools Wednesday morning in protest of Donald Trump's presidential election victory.  —  Chanting “Let's Dump Donald Trump” or “F— Donald Trump,” …
Discussion: Mashable, Washington Times and KNXV
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
How did polls miss the presidential election result so badly?  —  Heading into Election Day, virtually all public polling — at the national and swing-state level — pointed to a relatively easy victory for Democrat Hillary Clinton.  That, um, didn't happen.
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 …
Discussion: Mediaite and The Week
FiveThirtyEight:
2016 Election Night  —  Recounts?  —  The Appeal Of The Outsider  —  The Associated Press has called Pennsylvania for Trump.  —  Gary Johnson And Jill Stein Didn't Elect Trump  —  Parties Are Weak.  Partisanship Is Strong.  Or Is It?
Star Tribune:
Ilhan Omar will be nation's first Somali-American legislator  —  “It's the beginning of something new,” said Omar, who faced only nominal Republican opposition in a heavily DFL Minneapolis district.  —  Video (03:13) : Ilhan Omar became the first Somali-American elected to a state legislature representing Minneapolis' district 60B.
 
 
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CNN:
Plans underway for Trump transition
Amanda Sakuma / NBC News:
Trump Did Better With Blacks, Hispanics Than Romney in '12: Exit Polls
Ari Berman / The Nation:
The GOP's Attack on Voting Rights Was the Most Under-Covered Story of 2016
Discussion: VoteRiders, Daily Kos and Electionland
Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
Democrats, Trump, and the Ongoing, Dangerous Refusal to Learn the Lesson of Brexit
 Earlier Items: 
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
GOP makes big gains at the state level
Discussion: Hot Air
Ruben Navarrette Jr / The Daily Beast:
Why the Latino Vote Didn't Save America
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Democrats are now a party without leader or direction
Discussion: Politico and Political Wire
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Trump sounding different note on jailing Clinton
Discussion: RedState
National Journal:
How Obama Inadvertently Set the Stage for Trump's Presidency
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Absorbing the Impossible  —  I sat watching in astonishment.
Discussion: Scripting News
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Inside the Loss Clinton Saw Coming
Discussion: TheBlaze and Instapundit