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Donald Trump breaches Democratic firewall, wins presidential election
By Kellen Browning and Hugo Ward
GSS Correspondents
Against seemingly overwhelming odds, including accusations of a “rigged” election, controversial comments about women, Hispanics and Muslims, and a massive exodus of establishment Republicans, real estate mogul and Republican nominee Donald Trump has triumphed in the 2016 election and will become the 45th president of the United States.
Trump carried the key states of Florida, North Carolina and Ohio and shocked pollsters by breaching Clinton’s electoral firewall and scoring upset wins in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Michigan and New Hampshire remain too close to call, but Trump has a surprising lead in Michigan, also part of Clinton’s firewall.
The Associated Press projected Trump the winner at 2:31 a.m. EDT after his win in Wisconsin pushed him over the edge.
Although The New York Times’ campaign blog The Upshot predicted he would have as low as a a 15 percent chance of winning as of election day, Trump managed to rally supporters after a rocky campaign that included early-morning Twitter rants, accusations of sexual assault and open warfare within his own Republican party. Trump spent the last few days before the election campaigning aggressively in Democratic strongholds and swing states, including Minnesota and North Carolina — and it paid off.
After a 2005 video of a Trump appearance on the television show “Access Hollywood” was released on Oct. 7, including Trump making degrading comments towards women, pundits and pollsters predicted Trump would have little-to-no chance of victory. But supporters dismissed the comments as “locker room talk” and Clinton’s own troubles with emails she sent using a private server became a burden that the Democratic nominee could not shed.
It was a good night for Republicans, who maintained majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, marking the first time since the 2008 election that one party will control both houses of Congress and the White House.
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