Byron York: Trump win shocks even true believers. NEW YORK . She thought Florida didn't look good . But North Carolina looked good, as did Ohio and Iowa. All that was OK, but without Florida .
And beating Romney might quiet some of those Never. Trumpers who predicted Trump would lead the GOP to an utter blowout loss of historic proportions.
But then the Republican expressed doubt about her doubts. Back then, at 4: 3. Boston, she knew full well that Romney would lose. This time, although the road looked tough for Trump, there was enough of an air of unpredictability about the results that, even though she thought Trump would falter, she wasn't nearly as sure as four years ago.
At the Hilton Midtown, where Trump would hold his election- night event, a Republican strategist who had worked on the Dole campaign, two Bush campaigns, the Mc. Cain campaign, and the Romney campaign had little confidence Trump would win, but felt sure he would exceed Romney. Even a close loss would have value, he explained, because it would likely force the Beltway Republicans who refused to help Trump to look into the mirror and ask whether they could have done more to elect a GOP president. That's the kind of thinking that was going on in the early evening of the most extraordinary election night in U. S. Trump supporters wanted Trump to win .
Sessions said that in the last few days he visited Trump county headquarters in Arizona and Virginia. He was struck by the intensity of the support there.
This isn't a one- time thing. Consumer Confidence Index for December surged nearly four points .. I ran into Jason Miller, the communications director, the night before the election and the morning voting began.
He said Trump strategists felt very good not just about Florida but about North Carolina and Ohio and Michigan and Pennsylvania and other Rust Belt states. At 9: 0. 0 p. m., as some Trump fans were still contemplating an unhappy night, another Trump adviser, Boris Epshteyn, said optimism was . But it turned out the optimism was right on the money. Nobody quite knew what was happening in Florida .
North Carolina looked tough. Ohio was closer than some expected. Also from the Washington Examiner. Stein has rejected accusations that her campaign helped to hand the election over to Republican Donald Trump. But there was one thing that kept hope alive for him.
In this race, he said, . So was North Carolina.
It was just beginning to look like Trump had indeed drawn an inside straight. But he didn't want to look like he had doubted. I ran into Sessions again. Like everybody else, he was in better spirits. And so he carried Indiana by a huge vote, he carried Ohio by a nice vote . New York is not doable. When I endorsed Trump, I thought he brought that to the table.
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And added to your more conservative states, that can put you over the top. At the moment, it showed Trump with an 8. The big TVs all around were playing Fox News, which had Trump at 2. Some supporters became frustrated with the slow pace of vote counting. The audience became frustrated with Fox for not calling the race, not knowing that no other news organization had called it either. They heard the report that Hillary Clinton would not speak to her rally, about a mile away, and then they watched as top aide John Podesta took the stage to vow to wait for more returns before Clinton spoke on Wednesday. Then more waiting.
Word spread that Trump was coming to the Hilton. The race still had not been called, but it would have been completely unlike Trump to stiff an audience that had waited hours to see him.
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By the time Trump walked onstage to deliver a graceful victory speech . But Trump's supporters had spent months looking at the same polls as everybody else. When it turned out those polls were wrong, and their man was racing to victory, Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning made for a very, very happy shock. Top Story. SEIU was a major supporter of the Democrats in the last election, spending $2.