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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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Lauren Hodges / NPR:
GOP Leaders Make Peace With Trump In Favor Of ‘Unified Republican Government’ — It was just a month ago that a leaked video of Donald Trump boasting about grabbing women's genitals without their consent led House Speaker Paul Ryan to say he would not defend the Republican presidential nominee or campaign with him.
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The Root
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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The Strident Conservative, The Hill, LifeNews.com, Daily Kos and Washington Post
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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ABC News:
Transition: Obama, Trump to Meet at White House — President Barack Obama is set to welcome his successor, Donald Trump, to the White House, extending an olive branch to a man he has blasted as unfit to serve as commander in chief and who led the charge to challenge the legitimacy of his own presidency.
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Politico and Associated Press
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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New York Magazine, USA Today and Daily Kos
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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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abc11.com and Townhall.com
Amanda Sakuma / NBC News:
Trump Did Better With Blacks, Hispanics Than Romney in '12: Exit Polls — A look back at what Donald Trump promised he'd do in first 100 days 3:14 — Donald Trump performed stronger among black and Hispanic voters than Mitt Romney did as the Republican nominee in 2012, according to NBC Exit Polls.
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CBS News:
CBS News Exit Polls: How Donald Trump won the U.S. presidency
CBS News Exit Polls: How Donald Trump won the U.S. presidency
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Tami Luhby / CNN:
How Hillary Clinton lost
How Hillary Clinton lost
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Guardian, Telegraph, TheBlaze, Heat Street, Vox, Hit & Run and RedState, more at Mediagazer »
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
What A Difference 2 Percentage Points Makes — Here's the Electoral College map we're going to end up with, assuming that every uncalled state goes to the candidate leading in the vote count there as of 4 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday. There's a sea of red for President-elect Donald Trump.
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Balloon Juice, New York Times and Opinion Today
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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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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Mashable and The Verge, more at Mediagazer »
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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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Fred Imbert / CNBC:
Dow closes up 250 points; financials surge after Trump election upset
Dow closes up 250 points; financials surge after Trump election upset
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The Week, Wall Street Journal, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, New York Magazine and Bloomberg
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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Politico and Politicus USA
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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The Week
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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GeekWire and Instapundit
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Sean Trende / Real Clear Politics:
The “Missing White Voters,” Revisited — In the aftermath of the 2012 elections, I was perplexed. Most analysts had believed that if turnout dropped, Mitt Romney would be president. Yet turnout was clearly down by a substantial degree, yet President Obama had a surprisingly strong showing.
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.”
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.
Melia Robinson / Business Insider:
People in California are calling for a ‘Calexit’ from the US in the wake of Trump's win — “Calexit” is swiftly taking over social media. — After Donald Trump won the race to the White House, people across California took to social media Tuesday night to call for “Calexit,” recalling Brexit in its push to leave the union.
NBC News:
‘He Is Not My President’: Donald Trump Inspires Thousands to Protest in Streets Across U.S. — Thousands Protest Trump's Victory Around US 1:06 — Thousands of protesters swarmed the streets of several major cities Wednesday to voice their opposition to Donald Trump …
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CBS San Francisco:
Thousands Of High School Students Walk Out To Protest Trump Win — BERKELEY (CBS SF) — Thousands of students walked out of several East Bay high schools Wednesday, protesting Republican Donald Trump's presidential election victory. — Students at Berkeley High, Bishop O'Dowd, Albany High and Oakland Tech all staged walkouts.
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Stephanie Ebbs / ABC News:
Students Around the Country Walk Out to Protest President-Elect Donald Trump
Students Around the Country Walk Out to Protest President-Elect Donald Trump
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Berkeley Public Schools, Associated Press, Politico, Business Insider and The Daily Caller
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 …