How Trump won
CNN's
Maeve Reston and Stephen Collinson report: From the beginning, everyone
underestimated Donald Trump. He pulled off a stunning victory after the
most unprecedented of presidential campaigns.
Trump channeled the
fury of average Americans against Washington. He tapped into their
anxiety about the present and the fear of the future. He spoke to the
pain they felt about working hard and getting left behind.
And in doing so, he eviscerated every convention about politics.
The
pundits thought Trump's reality show antics, his vulgar rhetoric,
speeches filled with falsehoods and insults thrown at almost every
sector of American society -- Latinos, African Americans, war heroes,
women and Muslims -- would disqualify him from the presidency.
It didn't.
Instead
Trump marshaled a movement -- a modern day uprising of forgotten
Americans, reminiscent of Richard Nixon's "silent majority" of the late
1960s.
How they missed it
CNN's Dylan Byers reports: The American political-media establishment does not understand the depth of anger in its own country.
That
is one of the most significant lessons of the 2016 presidential
election, in which Donald Trump overcame the doubts of a majority of
reporters, pollsters and political scientists who believed Hillary
Clinton was headed for a decisive victory.
Instead, white rural
voters turned out in numbers that few so-called political experts
expected, delivering that decisive victory to Trump.
"It's a
debacle on the order of Dewey defeats Truman," Larry Sabato, the
University of Virginia political scientist, told CNNMoney, referring to
the famously incorrect headline that followed the 1948 presidential
election.
"The media are so, so far removed from their country,"
said Alec MacGillis, the veteran political journalist who writes for
ProPublica. "The gaps have gotten so large. The media are all in
Washington, D.C., and New York now thanks to the decline of local and
metro papers. And the gaps between how those cities and the rest of the
country are doing have gotten so much larger in recent years."
Three
days before the election, several media outlets and data journalists
had put Trump's likelihood of winning between 2% (Huffington Post) and
15% (The New York Times).
From CNN Moscow's Alla Eshchenko: Putin congratulates to Trump
The Kremlin released this statement on Donald Trump's victory:
"Russian president V. Putin has send a message to D.Trump with congratulations over his victory in US elections.
"In
his message, V. Putin expressed a hope for a mutual cooperation in
getting US-Russian relations out of the critical condition and in
solving vital questions of the international agenda and looking for
effective response to global security challenges.
"Russian
president also expressed belief in the fact that building a constructive
dialogue between Moscow and Washington, based on principles of
equality, mutual respect and real consideration of each other’s stands
is in favor of the interests of our countries and the international
community.
"V. Putin wished D.Trump success in such a responsible job as a head of state.