Trump wins presidency,

defeats Clinton in
historic election upset
Trump: I will be president for all Americans

Foxnews.com
Donald Trump, defying the pundits and polls to the end,
defeated Hillary Clinton in Tuesdays presidential
election and claimed an establishment-stunning victory
that exposes the depth of voter dissatisfaction and
signals immense changes ahead for American policy at
home and abroad.
Seventeen months after the billionaire tycoons Trump
Tower entrance into the race, the first-time candidate
once dismissed by the political elite will become the
45th president, Fox News projects.
Speaking to cheering supporters early Wednesday
morning at his victory party in New York City, the
Republican candidate and now president-elect said
Clinton called to congratulate him, and Fox News
confirms she has conceded. Despite their hard-fought
campaign, Trump praised Clinton for her service and
said it is time for us to come together as one united
people.

I will be president for all Americans, Trump vowed,

after a brief introduction by running mate Mike Pence.
Sounding a call to reclaim our countrys destiny,
Trump declared: The forgotten men and women of our
country will be forgotten no longer. America will no
longer settle for anything less than the best.
Trump will be the oldest president in U.S. history,
entering the Oval Office at age 70. With her defeat,
Clinton falls short in her second bid to become the first
female president of the United States.
Though Clinton called Trump, her campaign initially did
not concede defeat. Earlier, her campaign chairman
John Podesta addressed supporters nearby in New York
and said several states were too close to call.
Clinton herself did not appear at the rally. Podesta had
urged supporters to head home and said they would
not have anything more to say tonight.
Amid Trumps victory, Republicans also were projected
to hold onto their majority in the House and Senate,
improving Trumps chances of advancing his agenda in
office.
A surge of support in key battlegrounds and especially
surprise victories in states like Pennsylvania and
Wisconsin helped propel Trump to victory. The GOP
nominee built a commanding lead early on with wins in

heavily contested North Carolina, Florida, Ohio and

Iowa.
Clinton won her share of battlegrounds, including
Virginia and Nevada and Colorado, but could not make
up for Trumps strong performance in other states
thought to favor the Democrat.
The billionaire businessmans victory marked a
remarkable upset and turnaround, after he had been
complaining amid a rough patch just weeks ago the vote
could be rigged against him.
Clinton was still thought to have the clear advantage in
the electoral map going into Tuesdays vote, yet the
polls had been tightening in the races closing days.
His victory could demonstrate just how much the
dynamics were shifting in his favor and perhaps how
his true support was elusive all along to pollsters and
others gauging the race.
Without question, his bid was helped over the last two
weeks by a burst of setbacks for his opponent.
Eleven days before the election, FBI Director James
Comey announced the bureau was revisiting the
investigation into Clintons personal email server use
while secretary of state, after discovering new messages
on the laptop of disgraced ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner, the
estranged husband of a top Clinton aide. He closed the
case again on Sunday, but the political damage may
have been done. And the WikiLeaks release of emails

hacked from Podestas account became a constant

distraction for the campaign, as the messages revealed
infighting, internal concerns about the Clinton familys
foundation and even evidence that the now-head of the
Democratic National Committee leaked town hall
questions to Clinton during the primaries.
This at times overshadowed the numerous allegations of
sexual harassment and assault against Trump that came
out in October (which he denies), following leaked
footage from over a decade ago showing Trump making
crude comments about women.
Trumps victory marks the second time Clinton was
thwarted in her bid to become the first female U.S.
president, having been defeated by President Obama in
their 2008 primary race.
But Trump has been able to defy expectations from the
start. He defeated a deep field of 16 competitors during
the Republican primaries stitching together a
motivated coalition of voters invigorated by his outsider,
populist message; throwing his rivals off their talking
points during a raucous marathon of debates; and
commanding media attention throughout with his
unpredictable, learn-as-he-goes campaign style.
He also defied party orthodoxy, railing against free-trade
deals like NAFTA and the Trans Pacific Partnership and
staking out a sometimes-confusing set of positions on
foreign policy that may yet evolve. Democrats have
criticized him heavily for statements expressing

admiration for Russias Vladimir Putin and a desire to

rebuild ties with Moscow.
Trump was aided by the infrastructure of the GOP, but
his campaign never came close to the juggernaut
operation mounted by Clinton. While she entered the
final stretch of the race with an army of high-powered
surrogates, Trumps campaign was driven mainly by
him, an inner circle of family members and a rotating set
of top campaign advisers. Surrogates like retired Lt.
Gen. Mike Flynn and former New York Mayor Rudy
Giuliani advocated aggressively for the Republican
nominee, but he remained at odds with many influential
elected Republicans who in some cases as with House
Speaker Paul Ryan endorsed him, but only reluctantly.
His stances on trade as well as his hardline immigration
proposals including variations on a plan to suspend
Muslim immigration from certain countries also made
party brass uncomfortable.
The late emergence of a 2005 tape showing him making
crude comments about women led some congressional
Republicans to abandon him entirely. But even the
biggest controversies seemed only to ding Trump,
whose resilience in the polls could be credited to a
movement of grassroots supporters who seemed to
have little interest in the nominees tensions with the
GOP establishment and saw him as the true changemaker in the election.