Hillary Clinton concedes presidential race to Donald Trump

Instead, my daughter, Anna, 23, got a sobering lesson in democracy.

Individual polls showed narrow but notable leads for Ms. Clinton on popular vote heading into election day.

From their vast knowledge of history, the American Founding Fathers knew that unlimited political power can not safely be trusted to anyone – not to appointed officials of government, not to elected representatives of the people, not to the people themselves. That could be said of many disbelieving supporters of Hillary Clinton.

Clinton could not escape the email scandal of her own making or her exceedingly high negatives among the general electorate. “I will be president for all Americans”.

“We need to do some real soul searching in the Democratic Party about its future”, he said.

While Mr Trump pledged to unite the nation as a “president for all Americans”, the entire global political order, which hinges on Washington’s leadership, was cast into doubt by the election of a man who has questioned core USA alliances.

He said that ” at the end of two years, or three years, or four years – or maybe even eight years – you will say that so many of you worked so hard, but you will say that was something that you were really very proud to do”.

Even the most pessimistic projection, from well-regarded statistician Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight, gave the Democrat a 70 per cent chance of winning the White House.

Donald Trump has promised to revive the American dream after pulling off an astonishing victory in the race for the White House.

She observed that many of her supporters in the audience were at the beginning of their professional and political careers. You take the baton, you run your best race and hopefully by the time you hand it off, you’re a little further ahead, you’ve made a little progress.

Her unexpected defeat brought to power a candidate who disparaged her as “crooked Hillary” and whom she repeatedly denounced as unfit to lead the United States. Trump’s victory is fueled by the same global movement comprised of primarily disgruntled white men who been long since been abandoned by political elites who actually leave everyone in the cold.

In Washington, D.C., non-profit manager Trisha Postyuk said she saw her vote for Clinton as “a triumph over evil”.

Kapteyn (who participated in research for a Los Angeles Times/USC poll that predicted Trump as the victor) says that part of the reason polls weren’t completely accurate this year might be because there are many Trump voters who were too embarrassed to voice their support. It didn’t galvanize enough. As of Wednesday morning (when this is being written), incomplete returns showed Clinton leading Trump by 165,292 popular votes – 59,344,158 to 59,178,867. His 2.9 million votes were fewer than Democratic President Barack Obama’s nearly 3 million votes in 2012 or Obama’s nearly 3.3 million votes in 2008, while turnout was nearly identical. Trump soon after commented that if he was running things, Clinton would “be in jail”.

Nationally, he won nearly 7 out of 10 whites without college degrees.

While Clinton did capture majority of female voters-54%, according to exit polling-she lost some key constituencies, including white women, 53% of whom cast their ballots for Donald Trump. “This needs to be a time of redemption, not a time of recrimination”, Ryan said in a news conference, saying Trump had earned a “mandate” to enact his agenda. Just ask Martha Coakley.

I also had a chance last night to speak with Secretary Clinton and I just had the chance to hear her remarks.

University of MI political science professor Michael Traugott said the traditional U.S. model for picking presidents might seem odd to people in other nations, where campaigns were shorter and required less cash. Clinton admitted that the loss hurt, but she urged Americans to accept the results.

The first theory, and one that Trump supporters had put forward, is that voters simply were not admitting to pollsters that they were voting for Mr Trump.