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| Election moves into rearview as Trump team dives into transition – politics live | Election moves into rearview as Trump team dives into transition – politics live |
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| 3.35pm GMT | |
| 15:35 | |
| Sander: 'this is America' | |
| Senator Bernie Sanders: | |
| This is America and we aren't going to throw out 11 million people who are undocumented. We’re not going to turn against Muslims. pic.twitter.com/jhpixSNbBw | |
| Our job is to deal with the real issues – to deal with our rigged political and economic system – not take our anger out on our neighbors. | |
| 3.31pm GMT | |
| 15:31 | |
| Further via the Trump transition press pool: | |
| Trump’s Senior Communications Adviser Jason Miller arrived as well as senior advisor Stephen Miller. | |
| Trump’s deputy campaign manager David Bossie entered the building at 9:00 a.m. | |
| At 9:06 a.m. Trump campaign CEO Stephen K. Bannon arrived. | |
| At 9:07 a.m. Hope Hicks arrived. | |
| 3.29pm GMT | |
| 15:29 | |
| Trump receives advisers at Trump tower | |
| Here’s what Donald Trump says he’s up to this morning: | |
| Busy day planned in New York. Will soon be making some very important decisions on the people who will be running our government! | |
| Trump pool reporter Zeke Miller of Time magazine describes new security measures at Trump tower, which initially included Miller’s being not allowed into the building: | |
| Good morning from midtown Manhattan where your transition pool is holding in a media pen across Fifth Avenue from Trump Tower after being denied entry to the building by NYPD. (Even to the Starbucks!) The building is now a fortress. The sand trucks which ringed the building around Election Day have been replaced by jersey barriers and NYPD-marked concrete blocks. 56th street has been closed and now has NYPD-USSS joint checkpoints on each end. (This appears to be where the motorcade is staged, along with an FDNY ambulance on permanent standby.) There is large and overt police presence around the building and pedestrian access has been restricted along 56th between 5th and Madison, and along 5th between 56th and 57th. | |
| Technically we have a “lid” from the President-Elect’s office, but we have no assurance there won’t be movements. | |
| Update: | |
| The only action so far: the Trump Tower marquee was briefly papered-over for window cleaning. | |
| Note: The New York City Veterans Day Parade is scheduled to pass in front of Trump Tower later this morning. | |
| Update: | |
| Your pool has made it into Trump Tower. It appeared to be an NYPD communication issue. We’re now holding on the benches in the atrium and grabbing coffee. | |
| Update: | |
| Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski arrived at about 9:30 while talking on the phone. He acknowledged the pool and seemed like he’d stop to talk to us, before boarding one of the Trump Tower elevators. | |
| Brad Parscale arrived at ~9:40 | |
| Rudy Giuliani arrived at ~9:50 | |
| 3.23pm GMT | |
| 15:23 | |
| Reid: Trump's election 'emboldened the forces of hate' | |
| Retiring senate majority leader Harry Reid, who delivered a Hillary Clinton win and a Democratic senate race win in Nevada in an election when Democrats mostly lost, has issued a statement declaring that Donald Trump’s election “has emboldened the forces of hate and bigotry in America.” | |
| “I have heard more stories in the past 48 hours of Americans living in fear of their own government and their fellow Americans than I can remember hearing in five decades in politics,” Reid says. | |
| He goes on and on. | |
| “If this is going to be a time of healing, we must first put the responsibility for healing where it belongs: at the feet of Donald Trump, a sexual predator who lost the popular vote and fueled his campaign with bigotry and hate.” | |
| Read it here: | |
| Harry Reid has some thoughts about President-elect Donald Trump pic.twitter.com/Pe6dcJzNkV | |
| 1.54pm GMT | 1.54pm GMT |
| 13:54 | 13:54 |
| Hello, and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the 2016 ... oh wait, that’s over. Good morning, hello and welcome to our blog about US politics. | Hello, and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the 2016 ... oh wait, that’s over. Good morning, hello and welcome to our blog about US politics. |
| Why America elected Trump | Why America elected Trump |
| Still counting | Still counting |
| Mitt Romney lost by about 5m votes, 60.6m to Obama’s 65.4m. While the 2016 votes are still being counted – provisional and absentee ballot counting will last for weeks – it appears that Donald Trump won not only with fewer votes than Romney got, but, as Cook political report’s Dave Wasserman points out below, with a smaller proportion of the vote. | Mitt Romney lost by about 5m votes, 60.6m to Obama’s 65.4m. While the 2016 votes are still being counted – provisional and absentee ballot counting will last for weeks – it appears that Donald Trump won not only with fewer votes than Romney got, but, as Cook political report’s Dave Wasserman points out below, with a smaller proportion of the vote. |
| Here’s the current tally: | Here’s the current tally: |
| Clinton | Clinton |
| 60,556,142 – 47.6% | 60,556,142 – 47.6% |
| Trump | Trump |
| 60,116,240 – 47.3% | 60,116,240 – 47.3% |
| Others | Others |
| 6,458,802 – 5.1% | 6,458,802 – 5.1% |
| Donald Trump will ultimately have won the White House with a smaller % of the vote than Mitt Romney received in '12. https://t.co/j58GaxfPmH | Donald Trump will ultimately have won the White House with a smaller % of the vote than Mitt Romney received in '12. https://t.co/j58GaxfPmH |
| Take a hike | Take a hike |
| A Hillary Clinton supporter who was “heartbroken” over Tuesday’s election says she decided to go on a hike in the woods – and ran into the former presidential candidate herself. | A Hillary Clinton supporter who was “heartbroken” over Tuesday’s election says she decided to go on a hike in the woods – and ran into the former presidential candidate herself. |
| Margot Gerster said in a Facebook post that she was heading home following her hike Thursday in Clintons’ hometown of Chappaqua, New York, when she saw Clinton and former President Bill Clinton walking their dogs. | Margot Gerster said in a Facebook post that she was heading home following her hike Thursday in Clintons’ hometown of Chappaqua, New York, when she saw Clinton and former President Bill Clinton walking their dogs. |
| Gerster said she hugged the former Democratic nominee and told her that one of her “proudest moments as a mother” was taking her daughter with her to vote for Clinton. She posted a picture with Clinton that she says was snapped by the former president. | Gerster said she hugged the former Democratic nominee and told her that one of her “proudest moments as a mother” was taking her daughter with her to vote for Clinton. She posted a picture with Clinton that she says was snapped by the former president. |
| The picture’s here in this video: | The picture’s here in this video: |
| .@JoeNBC on viral Clinton photo: It's important for Clinton supporters to see that picture of Hillary Clinton https://t.co/BhsokStaTm | .@JoeNBC on viral Clinton photo: It's important for Clinton supporters to see that picture of Hillary Clinton https://t.co/BhsokStaTm |
| The president-elect tweets | The president-elect tweets |
| Two tweets, one contradiction and, more broadly, the still-dawning realization that @realdonaldtrump is soon the world’s most powerful person: | Two tweets, one contradiction and, more broadly, the still-dawning realization that @realdonaldtrump is soon the world’s most powerful person: |
| Just had a very open and successful presidential election. Now professional protesters, incited by the media, are protesting. Very unfair! | Just had a very open and successful presidential election. Now professional protesters, incited by the media, are protesting. Very unfair! |
| Love the fact that the small groups of protesters last night have passion for our great country. We will all come together and be proud! | Love the fact that the small groups of protesters last night have passion for our great country. We will all come together and be proud! |
| It’s Veterans’ day: | It’s Veterans’ day: |
| Let us honor all veterans & active military EVERY day. We can never ever say thank you enough for what they do for our country. #VeteransDay pic.twitter.com/LINLE8CB6z | Let us honor all veterans & active military EVERY day. We can never ever say thank you enough for what they do for our country. #VeteransDay pic.twitter.com/LINLE8CB6z |
| Bombshell Kelly memoir | Bombshell Kelly memoir |
| The New York Daily News reports: | The New York Daily News reports: |
| Fox News host Megyn Kelly, in her upcoming memoir “Settle for More,” claims President-elect Donald Trump received a question ahead of the first Republican presidential primary debate. | Fox News host Megyn Kelly, in her upcoming memoir “Settle for More,” claims President-elect Donald Trump received a question ahead of the first Republican presidential primary debate. |
| At least this wasn't in a hacked campaign email. https://t.co/NzNGLLIyG8 pic.twitter.com/LX424zlDBH | At least this wasn't in a hacked campaign email. https://t.co/NzNGLLIyG8 pic.twitter.com/LX424zlDBH |
| Thank you for reading and please join us in the comments. | Thank you for reading and please join us in the comments. |
| John Kerry flees to Antarctica - https://t.co/aP9SuRfw3e | John Kerry flees to Antarctica - https://t.co/aP9SuRfw3e |
| Updated | Updated |
| at 2.02pm GMT | at 2.02pm GMT |