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7:05 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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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 …
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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Amanda Sakuma / NBC News:
Trump Did Better With Blacks, Hispanics Than Romney in '12: Exit Polls
Ruben Navarrette Jr / The Daily Beast:   Why the Latino Vote Didn't Save America
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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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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New York Times:
U.S. Faces a Startling New Political Reality After Donald Trump's Victory
Discussion: Gothamist and Guardian
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.
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
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.
Discussion: New York Times
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Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
RNC model showed Trump losing
Discussion: RedState and The Atlantic
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.
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.
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Omarosa: Trump camp keeping list of enemies  —  will keep a list of Republicans who voted against the GOP nominee in the presidential election.  —  “It's so great our enemies are making themselves clear so that when we get in to the White House, we know where we stand,” the former “Apprentice” …
Discussion: 24Ahead and Politico
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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.
Discussion: Political Wire
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 …
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 …
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
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: 89.3 KPCC and KTLA
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.
Matt Hamilton / Los Angeles Times:
Trump victory sparks angry protests across California: ‘Not my president’  —  Students flocked to the campus of UCLA, where a protest erupted early Wednesday.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)  —  The election of Donald Trump to the presidency sparked protests early Wednesday across California …
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 …
Discussion: ABC News
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.
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
GOP makes big gains at the state level  —  Days ago, even some Republican strategists were predicting a civil war that would tear apart their party for years to come.  By Wednesday morning, it became clear that the GOP holds nearly unprecedented control not only in Washington, but also in state capitals across the country.
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 …
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.
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.
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, alan.com and The Week
 
 
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Dan Merica / CNN:
Clinton to offer remarks in New York City
Discussion: VICE and twitchy.com
Mackenziearyan / Des Moines Register:
Hundreds of Des Moines students stage walkout over Trump win
Discussion: Mashable, Washington Times and KNXV
Robby Soave / Hit & Run:
Trump Won Because Leftist Political Correctness Inspired a Terrifying Backlash
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
Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
The Shock Heard 'Round the World
Discussion: Politico
 Earlier Items: 
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Democrats are now a party without leader or direction
Discussion: Politico
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Trump sounding different note on jailing Clinton
Discussion: RedState
Alison Kodjak / NPR:
Trump Can Kill Obamacare With Or Without Help From Congress
National Journal:
How Obama Inadvertently Set the Stage for Trump's Presidency
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The media didn't want to believe Trump could win. So they looked the other way.
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
How Trump Won  —  The places that feel most left behind …
Discussion: Washington Post, Hullabaloo and Vox
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Absorbing the Impossible  —  I sat watching in astonishment.
Discussion: Scripting News
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

 
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