NEW YORK \u2014 Hillary\u00a0Clinton\u00a0told supporters Nov. 9 that they owed Donald Trump “an open mind and a chance to lead.”
The speech followed a dramatic election night in which Trump captured battleground states like Florida, North Carolina and Ohio and shattered a longstanding “blue wall” of states in the Upper Midwest that had backed every Democratic presidential candidate since her husband, Bill\u00a0Clinton, won the presidency in 1992.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Democrats \u2014 starting with\u00a0Clinton’s\u00a0campaign and the White House \u2014 were left wondering how they misread their country so completely. Mournful\u00a0Clinton\u00a0backers gathered outside the hotel Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I was devastated. Shocked. Still am,” said Shirley Ritenour, 64, a musician from Brooklyn. “When I came in on the subway this morning there were a lot of people crying. A lot of people are very upset.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The results were startling to\u00a0Clinton\u00a0and her aides, who had ended their campaign with a whirlwind tour of battleground states and had projected optimism that she would maintain the diverse coalition assembled by President Barack Obama in the past two elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the final day of the campaign,\u00a0Clinton\u00a0literally followed Obama to stand behind a podium with a presidential seal at a massive rally outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As she walked up to the lectern, the president bent down to pull out a small stool so the shorter\u00a0Clinton\u00a0could address the tens of thousands gathered on the mall. Before leaving the stage, Obama leaned over to whisper a message in\u00a0Clinton’s\u00a0ear: “We’ll have to make this permanent.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Clinton’s\u00a0stunning loss was certain to open painful soul-searching within the party, which had endured a lengthy primary between\u00a0Clinton\u00a0and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who drew strong support among liberals amid an electorate calling for change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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