Greet Trump with an open mind – Clinton
NEW YORK (AP: ILLARY CLINTON told supporters yesterday that they owed Donald Trump “an open mind and a chance to lead”.
Addressing stricken staff and voters at a New York City hotel, Clinton urged acceptance of Trump’s stunning win after a campaign that appeared poised until election day to make her the first woman elected US president. Clinton said she had offered to work with Trump on behalf of a country that she acknowledged is “more deeply divided than we thought”.
Flanked by husband Bill Clinton and daughter Chelsea Clinton Mezvinsky, Clinton’s voice vibrated with emotion at times, especially as she acknowledged that she had not “shattered that highest and hardest glass ceiling”.
Clinton then made a direct plea to “all the little girls” watching: “Never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every opportunity in the world and
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The speech followed a Democratic presidential dramatic election night in candidate since her husband, which Trump captured battleground Bill Clinton, won the states like presidency in 1992. Florida, North Carolina and Democrats — starting with Ohio and shattered a longstanding Clinton’s campaign and the White ‘blue wall’ of House — were left wondering states in the Upper Midwest how they misread their country so completely. Mournful Clinton backers gathered outside the hotel on Wednesday.
“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.”
The results were startling to Clinton and 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.