US Election 2016: Donald Trump Wins Florida And Leaves Clinton Reeling (Live Updates)

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The senate race in Missouri is a cliffhanger. That’s saying something considering there’s a Republican incumbent and Trump has won the state, showing a 23-point lead with 78% reporting.

But state secretary of state Jason Kander, a military veteran who cut a campaign ad in which he assembled a rifle blindfolded, is giving incumbent Roy Blunt a close run, and could beat him:

California is sending minority leader Nancy Pelosi back to the House of Representatives, AP reports. She’s won reelection.
Former Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin is interviewed at Trump’s election night rally.
 Former Obama political strategist David Plouffe does not know what hit him.

The two congressional districts Plouffe refers to are Nebraska’s second and Maine’s second, both of which have the capability to peel off an electoral vote either way depending on the winner.

Republicans hold House

The Republicans will solidly hold onto the House of Representatives, the AP projects, with only minor deterioration of their 60-seat majority.

They’re on track to hold the senate too.

Clinton wins Nevada

Hillary Clinton has won Nevada, and its six electoral votes, AP announces. There was strong Hispanic turnout in early voting in the state, enough to sustain her.

John McCain, in his victory speech: “One message came through loud and clear in this election, is that Americans want progress now.”

A bit of good news for the Democrats – they’ve held onto retiring minority leader Harry Reid’s senate seat in Nevada, with the election of Catherine Cortez Masto, the Democratic state attorney general.

In their attempt to take the senate, Democrats have held Nevada, but picked up only Illinois so far, and failed to pick up Wisconsin, Indiana, North Carolina, and Florida. Waiting on New Hampshire, Missouri and Pennsylvania.

Trump loves boasting about Wharton, his Ivy League alma mater. But at an election night party at the Pennsylvania business school on Tuesday night it felt like a wake. “A lot of people stayed home or have gone home,” said MBA student Divya Mayer said of the emptying room.

Ghassan Khara , another MBA student, said he was not a US citizen, but wanted to be. The prospect of a Trump presidency was grim for “people like me who want to call America home”.

His family is half-Christian and half-Muslim, “so I don’t fit into either category. What does that mean for me? He’s talking about a ban of all Muslims, which is crazy.”

“The rest of America can fuck itself. I hope they lose all their jobs and get addicted to meth,” a drunk student who refused to give his name broke in.

It’s Brexit again, a British MBA student told me. “People here still don’t believe that Trump has won. Trump has won this election.”

A drunken student who refused to give his name started ranting about the south and the “rest of America”.

“The rest of America can fuck itself. I hope they lose all their jobs and get addicted to meth,” he said.

Some basic notions about the dynamics of US presidential elections – accepted wisdom on the part of many academics, media members and other observers – have been exposed as false, FiveThirtyEight’s Harry Enten points out. We’d add the notion that a campaign needs a strong ground game at the state level to this list:






A couple embraced outside the Javits Center in New York where Hillary Clinton is due to speak later, at the so-called “block party”, which hasn’t felt like much of a party for the last several hours.

The woman wiped a tear from her face and the man stroked her hair.

Another man, who identified himself only by his first name, Theo, called the results so far “scary and troubling”.

“You don’t think there could be so much hate in this country - there is,” he said, an American flag drooping at his side.

Supporters still waved flags and cheered with new states - the announcement that Clinton won Washington elicited a round of applause.

But a homemade campaign video that ended with footage of a crowd chanting “I believe that she will win” fell hollow.

No, Trump supporters haven’t been chanting “We hate Muslims, we hate blacks” at a Manhattan rally.

The rumour comes from a tweet by a British parody account. It has been retweeted over 40,000 times already, including by journalists, enough to get the account trending in India and Malaysia. The account is known in the UK for doing this for all sorts of occasions, usually making false claims about chants at sports events. The fact that it subsequently claimed that the chant was being sung to the tune of “Enjoy The Silence” by Depeche Mode might have been a further clue that it didn’t happen.
Trump has scooped up Iowa’s six electoral votes, as it looked he would, the AP reports.

There aren’t many electoral votes left to scoop.

ABC News says Trump is taking a break.


#ff Ben Jacobs for the latest from the Trump party.

Trump wins Utah, in another pickup for him that once was subject to doubt, the AP announces. The story in Utah was that Mormons, as conservatively as they are known to vote, could not stomach Trump. But Utah’s six votes have gone to Trump.

Here’s the New Hampshire state representative who said Clinton “should be put in the firing line and shot for treason.” At the party, the Guardian’s Ben Jacobs reports:





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