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Today, cloudy, showers midday, high 56. Tonight, stray evening showers, clouds breaking late, colder, low 40. Tomorrow, sunshine, high 56. Weather map appears on Page B11. VOL. CLXVI . . . No. 57,411 ++ © 2016 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2016 Late Edition $2.50 U(D54G1D)y+[!.!%!=!. Donald John Trump was elected the 45th president of the United States on Tuesday in a stunning culmination of an explo- sive, populist and polarizing cam- paign that took relentless aim at the institutions and long-held ideals of American democracy. The surprise outcome, defying late polls that showed Hillary Clinton with a modest but persist- ent edge, threatened convulsions throughout the country and the world, where skeptics had watched with alarm as Mr. Trump’s unvarnished overtures to disillusioned voters took hold. The triumph for Mr. Trump, 70, a real estate developer-turned-re- ality television star with no gov- ernment experience, was a pow- erful rejection of the establish- ment forces that had assembled against him, from the world of business to government, and the consensus they had forged on ev- erything from trade to immigra- tion. The results amounted to a repu- diation, not only of Mrs. Clinton, but of President Obama, whose legacy is suddenly imperiled. And it was a decisive demonstration of power by a largely overlooked co- alition of mostly blue-collar white and working-class voters who felt that the promise of the United States had slipped their grasp amid decades of globalization and multiculturalism. In Mr. Trump, a thrice-married Manhattanite who lives in a mar- ble-wrapped three-story pent- house apartment on Fifth Avenue, they found an improbable cham- pion. Mr. Trump’s strong showing helped Republicans retain control of the Senate. Only one Republi- can-controlled seat, in Illinois, fell to Democrats early in the evening. And Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina, a Republican, eas- ily won re-election in a race that had been among the country’s most competitive. A handful of other Republican incumbents fac- ing difficult races were running better than expected. WORKING CLASS SPEAKS Blue-Collar Whites Give Stinging Rebuke to Democratic Party By PATRICK HEALY and JONATHAN MARTIN Donald J. Trump voting on Tuesday at P.S. 59 in Manhattan. His defeat of Hillary Clinton defied late polls and was a repudiation of the establishment. DAMON WINTER/THE NEW YORK TIMES Continued in Election 2016, Page 5 Disruption in the form of Donald J. Trump starred in what initially seemed a standard election, Mark Leibovich writes. ELECTION 2016, PAGE 1 REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK Disruption, Thy Name Is Trump Thomas L. Friedman PAGE A27 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A26-27 Republicans appeared to keep their grip on the House of Representatives, though Democrats were likely to make modest gains. ELECTION 2016, PAGE 12 WATCHING THE HOUSE Still Republican Territory Democrats gained one seat, but the Republicans, pulled along by Donald Trump’s success, retained control of the Senate. ELECTION 2016, PAGE 10 SENATE STAYS RED G.O.P. Rides Trump’s Coattails AMBRIDGE, Pa. — As Donald J. Trump’s surprisingly strong showing played out on a television above Fred’s Divot bar, the men who by day carry pipes, hang dry- wall and drive locomotives watched the returns with mount- ing satisfaction. “He’s killing it — that’s our next president,” said John Gaguzis, 50, who had affixed an “I voted” sticker to the blue uniform shirt he wears in a bottling plant. “We need a change. We’ve got to get rid of the Democrats that support people that don’t want to work.” Jerry Kormick, a disabled con- struction worker engaged in a se- rious darts competition, said he had voted for the first time in his life, at age 37. He never believed polls showing Hillary Clinton ahead, he said, not after visiting friends in rural North Carolina. This former steel town west of Pittsburgh was for decades a Democratic stronghold, where Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms are proclaimed on a memorial in the small town park. But industrial decline and what is perceived as too-fast cultural change in the country at large has transformed Ambridge and the rest of Beaver County around it, with the yards of faded brick homes presenting a river of Trump signs. When votes were still being counted early Wednesday, Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Trump were es- sentially tied in Pennsylvania, but it was clear who had won Beaver County: Mr. Trump by 20 points. Joann and Mark Crano, both re- tired, switched their registrations to Republican this year after a life- time as Democrats, and they reeled off the names of many other friends and family members who did likewise. A Blue-Collar Town in Decline And in Despair Turns to Trump By TRIP GABRIEL AMBRIDGE JOURNAL John Gaguzis, a Trump sup- porter, at a bar on Tuesday. HILARY SWIFT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Continued in Election 2016, Page 8 TRUMP TRIUMPHS OUTSIDER MOGUL CAPTURES THE PRESIDENCY, STUNNING CLINTON IN BATTLEGROUND STATES JERUSALEM — Donald J. Trump’s stunning election vic- tory on Tuesday night rippled way beyond the nation’s bound- aries, upending an international order that prevailed for decades and raising profound questions about America’s place in the world. For the first time since before World War II, Americans chose a president who promised to re- verse the internationalism prac- ticed by predecessors of both parties and to build walls both physical and metaphorical. Mr. Trump’s win foreshadowed an America more focused on its own affairs while leaving the world to take care of itself. The outsider revolution that propelled him to power over the Washington establishment of both political parties also re- flected a fundamental shift in international politics evidenced already this year by events like Britain’s referendum vote to leave the European Union. Mr. Trump’s success could fuel the populist, nativist, nationalist, closed-border movements al- ready so evident in Europe and spreading to other parts of the world. The results of Tuesday’s elec- tion left many around the world scrambling to figure out what it might mean in parochial terms. For Mexico, it seemed to presage a new era of confrontation with its northern neighbor. For Eu- rope and Asia, it could rewrite the rules of modern alliances, trade deals, and foreign aid. For the Middle East, it foreshadowed a possible alignment with Russia and fresh conflict with Iran. “All bets are off,” said Agustín Barrios Gómez, a former con- gressman in Mexico and presi- Around the World, Uncertainty And Fear That ‘All Bets Are Off’ By PETER BAKER NEWS ANALYSIS Supporters of Donald J. Trump in Sioux City, Iowa. DAMON WINTER/THE NEW YORK TIMES Continued in Election 2016, Page 9 Donald John Trump defied the skeptics who said he would never run, and the political veterans who scoffed at his slapdash cam- paign. He attacked the norms of Amer- ican politics, singling out groups for derision on the basis of race and religion and attacking the le- gitimacy of the political process. He ignored conventions of com- mon decency, employing casual vulgarity and raining personal hu- miliation on his political oppo- nents and critics in the media. And in the ultimate act of defi- ance, Mr. Trump emerged victori- ous, summoning a tidal wave of support from less educated whites displaced by changes in the econ- omy and deeply resistant to the country’s shifting cultural and ra- cial tones. In his triumph, Mr. Trump has delivered perhaps the greatest shock to the American political system in modern times and opened the door to an era of extraordinary political uncer- tainty at home and around the globe. The slashing, freewheeling campaign that took him to the doorstep of the White House rep- licated a familiar pattern from Mr. Trump’s life, but on an Olympian scale. The son of a wealthy real estate developer in Queens, Mr. Trump, 70, spent decades pursuing social acceptance in upscale Manhattan and seeking, at times desperately, to persuade the wider world to see him as a great man of affairs. But Mr. Trump was often met with scoffing disdain by wealthy elites and mainstream civic leaders, cul- minating in a mortifying roast by President Obama at the White House Correspondents Dinner in 2011. So Mr. Trump fashioned himself Clarion of White Populist Rage Who Vowed ‘I Am Your Voice’ By ALEXANDER BURNS MAN IN THE NEWS TRUMP CLINTON NO RESULT Continued in Election 2016, Page 9 Donald J. Trump attacked the norms of American politics. THE NEW YORK TIMES The elaborate polling models deployed by the major news outlets failed to detect an angry, seismic shift in the electorate. ELECTION 2016, PAGE 15 FAILED PREDICTIONS Media Didn’t See It Coming

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Page 1: TRUMP TRIUMPHS

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Today, cloudy, showers midday, high56. Tonight, stray evening showers,clouds breaking late, colder, low 40.Tomorrow, sunshine, high 56.Weather map appears on Page B11.

VOL. CLXVI . . . No. 57,411 ++ © 2016 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Late Edition

$2.50

U(D54G1D)y+[!.!%!=!.

Donald John Trump waselected the 45th president of theUnited States on Tuesday in astunning culmination of an explo-sive, populist and polarizing cam-paign that took relentless aim atthe institutions and long-heldideals of American democracy.

The surprise outcome, defyinglate polls that showed HillaryClinton with a modest but persist-ent edge, threatened convulsionsthroughout the country and theworld, where skeptics hadwatched with alarm as Mr.Trump’s unvarnished overtures todisillusioned voters took hold.

The triumph for Mr. Trump, 70,a real estate developer-turned-re-ality television star with no gov-ernment experience, was a pow-erful rejection of the establish-ment forces that had assembledagainst him, from the world ofbusiness to government, and theconsensus they had forged on ev-erything from trade to immigra-tion.

The results amounted to a repu-diation, not only of Mrs. Clinton,but of President Obama, whoselegacy is suddenly imperiled. Andit was a decisive demonstration ofpower by a largely overlooked co-alition of mostly blue-collar whiteand working-class voters who feltthat the promise of the UnitedStates had slipped their graspamid decades of globalization andmulticulturalism.

In Mr. Trump, a thrice-marriedManhattanite who lives in a mar-ble-wrapped three-story pent-house apartment on Fifth Avenue,they found an improbable cham-pion.

Mr. Trump’s strong showinghelped Republicans retain controlof the Senate. Only one Republi-can-controlled seat, in Illinois, fellto Democrats early in the evening.And Senator Richard Burr ofNorth Carolina, a Republican, eas-ily won re-election in a race thathad been among the country’smost competitive. A handful ofother Republican incumbents fac-ing difficult races were runningbetter than expected.

WORKING CLASS SPEAKS

Blue-Collar Whites GiveStinging Rebuke toDemocratic Party

By PATRICK HEALYand JONATHAN MARTIN

Donald J. Trump voting on Tuesday at P.S. 59 in Manhattan. His defeat of Hillary Clinton defied late polls and was a repudiation of the establishment.DAMON WINTER/THE NEW YORK TIMES

Continued in Election 2016, Page 5

Disruption in the form of Donald J.Trump starred in what initially seemeda standard election, Mark Leibovichwrites. ELECTION 2016, PAGE 1

REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK

Disruption, Thy Name Is Trump Thomas L. Friedman PAGE A27

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A26-27

Republicans appeared to keep their gripon the House of Representatives,though Democrats were likely to makemodest gains. ELECTION 2016, PAGE 12

WATCHING THE HOUSE

Still Republican TerritoryDemocrats gained one seat, but theRepublicans, pulled along by DonaldTrump’s success, retained control of theSenate. ELECTION 2016, PAGE 10

SENATE STAYS RED

G.O.P. Rides Trump’s Coattails

AMBRIDGE, Pa. — As DonaldJ. Trump’s surprisingly strongshowing played out on a televisionabove Fred’s Divot bar, the menwho by day carry pipes, hang dry-wall and drive locomotiveswatched the returns with mount-ing satisfaction.

“He’s killing it — that’s our nextpresident,” said John Gaguzis, 50,who had affixed an “I voted”sticker to the blue uniform shirt hewears in a bottling plant. “Weneed a change. We’ve got to get ridof the Democrats that supportpeople that don’t want to work.”

Jerry Kormick, a disabled con-struction worker engaged in a se-rious darts competition, said hehad voted for the first time in hislife, at age 37. He never believedpolls showing Hillary Clintonahead, he said, not after visitingfriends in rural North Carolina.

This former steel town west ofPittsburgh was for decades aDemocratic stronghold, whereFranklin D. Roosevelt’s FourFreedoms are proclaimed on amemorial in the small town park.But industrial decline and what isperceived as too-fast cultural

change in the country at large hastransformed Ambridge and therest of Beaver County around it,with the yards of faded brickhomes presenting a river ofTrump signs.

When votes were still beingcounted early Wednesday, Mrs.Clinton and Mr. Trump were es-sentially tied in Pennsylvania, butit was clear who had won BeaverCounty: Mr. Trump by 20 points.

Joann and Mark Crano, both re-tired, switched their registrationsto Republican this year after a life-time as Democrats, and theyreeled off the names of manyother friends and family memberswho did likewise.

A Blue-Collar Town in DeclineAnd in Despair Turns to Trump

By TRIP GABRIEL

AMBRIDGE JOURNAL

John Gaguzis, a Trump sup-porter, at a bar on Tuesday.

HILARY SWIFT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Continued in Election 2016, Page 8

TRUMP TRIUMPHSOUTSIDER MOGUL CAPTURES THE PRESIDENCY,

STUNNING CLINTON IN BATTLEGROUND STATES

JERUSALEM — Donald J.Trump’s stunning election vic-tory on Tuesday night rippledway beyond the nation’s bound-aries, upending an internationalorder that prevailed for decadesand raising profound questionsabout America’s place in theworld.

For the first time since beforeWorld War II, Americans chose apresident who promised to re-verse the internationalism prac-ticed by predecessors of bothparties and to build walls bothphysical and metaphorical. Mr.Trump’s win foreshadowed anAmerica more focused on its ownaffairs while leaving the world totake care of itself.

The outsider revolution thatpropelled him to power over theWashington establishment ofboth political parties also re-flected a fundamental shift ininternational politics evidencedalready this year by events likeBritain’s referendum vote toleave the European Union. Mr.Trump’s success could fuel thepopulist, nativist, nationalist,closed-border movements al-

ready so evident in Europe andspreading to other parts of theworld.

The results of Tuesday’s elec-tion left many around the worldscrambling to figure out what itmight mean in parochial terms.For Mexico, it seemed to presagea new era of confrontation withits northern neighbor. For Eu-rope and Asia, it could rewritethe rules of modern alliances,trade deals, and foreign aid. Forthe Middle East, it foreshadoweda possible alignment with Russiaand fresh conflict with Iran.

“All bets are off,” said AgustínBarrios Gómez, a former con-gressman in Mexico and presi-

Around the World, UncertaintyAnd Fear That ‘All Bets Are Off’

By PETER BAKER

NEWS ANALYSIS

Supporters of Donald J.Trump in Sioux City, Iowa.

DAMON WINTER/THE NEW YORK TIMES

Continued in Election 2016, Page 9

Donald John Trump defied theskeptics who said he would neverrun, and the political veteranswho scoffed at his slapdash cam-paign.

He attacked the norms of Amer-ican politics, singling out groupsfor derision on the basis of raceand religion and attacking the le-gitimacy of the political process.

He ignored conventions of com-mon decency, employing casualvulgarity and raining personal hu-miliation on his political oppo-nents and critics in the media.

And in the ultimate act of defi-ance, Mr. Trump emerged victori-ous, summoning a tidal wave ofsupport from less educated whitesdisplaced by changes in the econ-omy and deeply resistant to thecountry’s shifting cultural and ra-cial tones. In his triumph, Mr.Trump has delivered perhaps thegreatest shock to the Americanpolitical system in modern timesand opened the door to an era ofextraordinary political uncer-tainty at home and around theglobe.

The slashing, freewheelingcampaign that took him to the

doorstep of the White House rep-licated a familiar pattern from Mr.Trump’s life, but on an Olympianscale.

The son of a wealthy real estatedeveloper in Queens, Mr. Trump,70, spent decades pursuing socialacceptance in upscale Manhattanand seeking, at times desperately,to persuade the wider world to seehim as a great man of affairs. ButMr. Trump was often met withscoffing disdain by wealthy elitesand mainstream civic leaders, cul-minating in a mortifying roast byPresident Obama at the WhiteHouse Correspondents Dinner in2011.

So Mr. Trump fashioned himself

Clarion of White Populist RageWho Vowed ‘I Am Your Voice’

By ALEXANDER BURNS

MAN IN THE NEWS

TRUMP CLINTON NO RESULT

Continued in Election 2016, Page 9

Donald J. Trump attacked thenorms of American politics.

THE NEW YORK TIMES

The elaborate polling models deployedby the major news outlets failed todetect an angry, seismic shift in theelectorate. ELECTION 2016, PAGE 15

FAILED PREDICTIONS

Media Didn’t See It Coming