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Donald Trump finished election night with 306 electoral college votes to Hillary Clinton’s 232, exceeding the 270 votes needed to win the presidency. However, Clinton is well on her way to securing a 2-million-vote lead over Trump in the popular vote, a significant lead that would boost calls for ending the controversial electoral college system that landed the real estate billionaire in the White House.
Trump's campaign was characterized by statements against women, Muslims and immigrants, including his promise to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Despite his affluent background, his electoral campaign purported to be anti-establishment, although he had the backing of powerful forces and was fueled by the national and international extreme right, including KKK and Nazi members in the U.S.
Now the question is: What is going to happen under a Trump presidency?
Kicking Off the US Election Season Finale – Trump Wins
In an astounding development, Donald Trump became U.S. president-elect, the U.S. top political post for presumably one of the richest and least experienced men to assume the office in history. READ MORE
Why Trump Won — And What’s Next
In an age when 97 percent of all GDP-national income gains since 2010 have accrued to the wealthiest 1 percent — of which Trump is one— how could American voters come to elect Trump? How could they vote for a candidate that they simultaneously were giving a "negative rating" of 60 to 80 percent? That fundamental question will ever haunt this election. READ MORE
Trump, the Empire's New Frontman, Was Elected by White People
White people in the United States, across gender, across age, across education status and across class have overwhelmingly voted for Trump. They have thrown their weight behind a man that has proposed banning Muslims from entering the United States. A man who has brandished Mexicans as rapists. READ MORE
Trump’s 7 Most Dangerous Campaign Promises
Donald Trump made hundreds of promises on the campaign trail, usually vague, often changing, but nonetheless terrifying. As the United States and the world wake up to the reality of a Trump presidency we review some of his most dangerous pledges. READ MORE
CEOs, Giuliani, Palin, Carson Likely Trump Cabinet Picks
While he ran a campaign full of criticism of Wall Street and the establishment, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump seems intent on filling up his cabinet with big names from the financial machine in the United States as well as those who were loyal to him after a campaign in which many Republican Party leaders kept their distance. READ MORE
'Not My President': Thousands Across US Protest Trump Win
Protests broke out across the United States against Donald Trump’s election as president with people chanting, “Not my president!” and “American you are better than this,” as many continue to question the future of the country under the real estate billionaire after an 18 month-long racist, misogynistic and xenophobic campaign. READ MORE
Trump Victory Sees Spike in Hate Crimes
Activists are reporting widespread hate crime incidents against Latinos, Black people, Muslims and the LGBTI community across the United States just only hours after Donald Trump was elected president. READ MORE
Left Political Parties in US Weigh In on Trump Victory
Five parties on the U.S. left issued statements on how to deal with Donald Trump's win and move forward. teleSUR published the best excerpts . READ MORE
After U.S. Election–Agitate, Educate, Organize: Willie Baptist
Willie Baptist, coordinator of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights and Social Justice, talked about the effects of the U.S. election and the possible road ahead. READ MORE
It’s Time for US Progressives to Build Their New Political Home
Trump won, and we have woken up to a new world: an all-too-real unreality. Nearly every poll out there was wrong, and we are understandably bewildered. The psychic blow alone of the Trump presidency is unprecedented. READ MORE
Clinton Calls for Giving Trump 'Open Mind and Chance to Lead'
Hillary Clinton finally offered a measured concession speech Wednesday in New York after a lengthy delay, announcing her willingness to work with Donald Trump and keep an open mind about his presidency. READ MORE
The Art of Spin: Feminism, Privilege Politics and the Clinton Campaign
The Clinton campaign has masterfully deployed feminist tropes and identity politics to promote Clinton as a feminist icon. Clinton supporters like to believe that they are above such spin. As we will show in this article, however, this is not the case. READ MORE
Oliver Stone: Hillary Clinton is Just as Dangerous as Trump
The famous Hollywood director said he doubts that Donald Trump would win and that the U.S. needs to start worrying about the “interventionism” of Clinton. READ MORE
Money Can't Buy You Love: Over $2B Raised by Clinton and Trump
The 2016 U.S. presidential election campaign has been one of the most expensive on record, with both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump raising more than US$2 billion in total, according to data from the Federal Election Commission. READ MORE
Clinton Leads Trump by 1.8 Million Votes as Counting Continues
Hillary Clinton has so far secured a 1.8-million-vote lead over President-elect Donald Trump in the popular vote of the U.S. elections, a significant lead that would boost calls for ending the controversial electoral college system that landed the real estate billionaire in the White House. READ MORE
US Election: Trump Win Saw Lowest Voter Turnout in 20 Years
The election where exit polls suggest white people in the United States across gender, age, education status and class overwhelmingly voted for U.S. president-elect Donald Trump, also reveal that the same election saw the lowest voter turnout in two decades. READ MORE
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a campaign event in Knoxville, Iowa Jan. 25, 2016. | Photo Reuters
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U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses the crowd at a campaign rally in Farmington, New Hampshire Jan. 25, 2016. | Photo Reuters
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Donald Trump has borrowed a phrase used by Richard Nixon. | Photo Reuters
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Former U.S. President Bill Clinton makes remarks at the Hillary Victory Fund 'I'm With Her' benefit concert for his wife, U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, at Radio City Music Hall in the Manhattan borough of New York City. | Photo Reuters
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Demonstrators protest against U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, outside the Trump Tower building in midtown Manhattan in New York . | Photo Reuters
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