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IT IS NOW official, America will not yet get its first female president.
Earlier this morning, Hillary Clinton made a phone call to Republican candidate Donald Trump to concede the race. It came after Trump claimed enough states to pass the crucial 270 electoral college votes mark.
Hours beforehand, Clinton had already appeared to concede, using her Twitter account to thank everyone who had supported her throughout the campaign “whatever happens”.
At around 2am local time, Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta addressed supporters at the Javits Center, which was due to host her victory party.
“We’re not going to have anything more to say tonight,” he said. “Everyone should go home”.
It was expected that the Democratic candidate would make a concession speech – at the very least to thank her supporters – but she has remained silent since her phone conversation with Donald Trump.
Reporters have been told Clinton will not speak now until later today.
In his victory speech, Trump congratulated her on a “hard-fought campaign”. He said that the country owes Clinton a debt of gratitude for her service.
“Hillary has worked very long and very hard over a long period of time – we owe her a major debt of gratitude for her service to our country, I mean that sincerely.”
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Hillary has to apologise to her associates in Goldman Sachs and the House of Saud first. After all this election was meant to be for them.
The embarrassment and humiliation of losing (and she lost bigly), when she all the advantages, the media, big business,A list celeb endorsements, a compliant Democratic party hierarchy that helped her rig the primaries and a ruthless and a vicious political machine behind her, must be killing her.
@Gordian, well said.
@Gordian Knot: I agree.
The one thing the democratic party ignored despite all the signs was that people just do not like her.
@Gordian Knot: It was really dissapointing to watch Hillary being supported by celebrities to draw a crowd, it shows how false the race to the White House has become, really dissapointing….
Her problem was that she was such an Establishment candidate at such an anti-establishment moment in history. Democrats should have had the courage of their convictions and gone for Bernie Sanders, then it could have been a straightforward battle of ideologies
I would think it was all those “advantages” that cost her the election. Trumps anti establishment message spoke to everyone, I mean take Trump and Clinton out for a minute, who seriously isn’t sick to death of that sh!t? I feel for a lot of Americans now over the next few years but something was going to snap eventually.
@Gordian Knot: indeed. The clintons have taken HUGE sums of money from shady corporations and banks, corrupt dictators and evil despots in return for access to US policy making. Those parties will now have to write off those donations and have no use for the Clinton foundation anymore. So the clintons wealthy lifestyle is over as they know it, and they might even be pursued to recoup some of the cash.
Then there’s the small matter of ongoing investigations into the foundation which are apparently close to yielding indictments and the fact that the congressional oversight committee isn’t letting go of the email scandal anytime soon.
She must be hoping for the ground to open up and swallow her at this stage.
The only reason people came to her rallys was to get a free JLo, Bruce, Katy Perry and Beyonce concert. How dumb were people to think she would actually win? Just goes to show you cant believe anything you read in the Media. I am listening to Hugh O Connell on Radio 1 and i think he is about to vom.
Bernie was their man and they blew it, a right winged democratic cosying up to wall st was dooped by a novice. All the polls got it wrong but common sense would say he was going to win. The establishment were too full on trying to taint him and paint her as mother Teresa and it all backfired.
She must be SO pissed off! As must Madonna, Beyonce etc, after they hitched their wagon to the wrong star!. Those people hate being on the losing side
@ stephen kavanagh : They hitched their star to a wagon!
OK Trump won, people need to build a wall and get over it.
It’s gas lads.. Trump wins the election, so the media outlets start to cut clinton..
@Cian Marnane:
Why wouldn’t they? The money isn’t flowing to the Clinton campaign anymore.
Hardly going to jump on the president elect so they go for the scraps
Welcome to the post-Obama era in which honesty will prevail once the swamp has been cleared. Who care where Clinton is, she is yesterdays woman.
She’ll be grand sure doesn’t she have all those millions donated to the haiti relief effort . That women has so much blood on her hands its disturbing. The only thing worse are the fools that supported her.
I hope Trump throws her jail c
@potnoodle: On what charges? Or do you just want him to throw her into jail, because you say so?
The concentration camps will be open soon enough.
Preparing for prison most likely. So long, farewell. You won’t be missed.
She is looking for Russians who hacked election servers and make her loose.. Like Merkel already…
She’s contemplating a future without donations to fund her lavish lifestyle. Some of these “donations” may have been on the condition she wins and returns the favour. Watch your back Hillary!
Sending her supporters home with a defiant speech from an aide and then conceding wasn’t exactly “going high”
It seems to me, that at the very least she could have thanked her supporters and staff, and not waited until the next day. It looks to me like a severe case of being unused to not getting your own way, or else to be charitable, the reports of her being in very poor health were correct all along. In the end it’s very poor form to not even make an appearance, she was clearly planning to appear at a victory rally, but that didn’t work out. Someone with class would have chosen not to send Podesta to pass the message on.
Democrats should have gone with Bernie Sanders. He would have win by a landslide.
@GO GREEN:
Sanders is the most popular politician in the USA. He would have easily won but the democratic party was desperate to shove such an unlikable, corrupt politician down the peoples throats.
Good riddance! It’s clear Chelsea Clinton is being prepped to inherit the “Clinton Legacy”. The last thing I want to see is another Clinton in office because they feel they deserve it.
On her way to the Ecuadorean embassy….or already in it.
I listened to his victory speech. Was surprised at how humble in victory he was. He didn’t have to be so gracious to her, at least I wasn’t expecting it. Then he went on and thanked everyone for their help, but forgot the new vice president
In fairness, everybody else forgot about the new vice president, too.
Sending Podesta out for her last night. Indicative of her absolute contempt for the peasantry.
Couldn’t even thank her supporters. Bad form but not surprising.
On the day before the election, Trump was e-mailing hos supporters for one final donation to be used to buy pizzas for his campaign staff, because he didn’t want to pay for them.
@Neal not Neil: what’s that got to do with clinton not thanking her supporters ? Really pizzas . Think your getting your campaign teams mixed up. It was Clinton campaign that had a thing for pizza.
Trump was 7/2 on paddy power yesterday. Feck it anyway
Looks like Trump’s supporters grabbed the Clinton campaign by the ballot!
A disgraceful act on her supporters,but that’s typical of Clinton.
As least there won’t be any squabbles over who gets to be First Lady …
@MackPilon: Melania is certainly much easier on the eye than Bill…
This is one of those gamechanging moments in life where you remember where you were when you heard the news……
Princess Dianna, Michael Jackson, 911, Enda Kenny relected, Brexit, President Trump.
Could just add 11/9 into that list….
This speaks volumes , elitist Clinton , the reason she lost the election, people are not giving the American voting public the credit they deserve, they had her figured out.
Anyone who thought they were taking a risk by voting Trump can rest easier with their decision.
She’s probably on a flight out of the country this minute… Jail time on the horizon and all that.
Still on that crusade
Lol
Sadly there is no real successor to the Democratic party leadership. And nobody wants to jump into that roll till the tsunami recedes. That might be awhile before any new Democrat can get some visibility.
@John Flood: Kanye has already declared for 2020 hasn’t he?
She was spotted running from the White House with a few painting, she can gaze into them while sucking down sour grapes. She could care less about the volunteers that ran her campaign or the party that supported her, both were just stepping stones to power. Pride before the fall, for the lizard queen. Women in America may feel disappointed today but tomorrow they will realise what a disaster Hillary would have being as president. For a population of 350 million I am condifient that come the next presidential election a really strong female leader will have emerged who will beat chump at his own game. Taking things for granted in politics was a mistake. Power to the people not to Wall Street, bankers and multinationals who’s profits comes straight out of the pockets of workers. God bless America and potect her people against curroption and greed that has infected it.
The FBI involvement had a massive part in this election.
@Tony Hartigan: Don’t have a side in this, but you are 100% right. FBI are supposed to be impartial. That could only have been proven correct if there was a problem with the emails. To come out a week later, supposedly having read thousands of emails to say they got it wrong was political meddling at its worst.
@Tony Hartigan: Without global corporational media support for Clinton she would barely get more than 20% I’d say.
@cortisol How exactly does global corporational [sic] media support for Clinton translate exactly into individual American votes? As an individual American who voted yesterday, I’m just curious.
The thought of writing a concession speech probably never entered her head in the lead up to the election.
Hadn’t written one as so confident
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