Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta took the stage at New York’s Javits Center, where the campaign was holding what it had hoped would be a victory party, and told the crowd to go home and to get the rest, but he said the election wasn’t over yet.
No speech from Clinton, let alone a concession.
“We can wait a little longer, cant we?” Podesta said. “They’re still counting votes and every vote should count. Several states are too close to call.”
As Podesta spoke Trump was on the verge of securing the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency. But he had not crossed the threshold yet.
The campaign’s press pool had previously reported that Podesta was heading to the Javits Center, without Clinton.
“We will have more to say tomorrow,” Podesta said.
He praised the supporters for their hard work.
“We are so proud of you and we are so proud of her,” Podesta said. “She has done an amazing job and she’s not done yet.”
Slow dance/
last chance/
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So is she going to pull a page from the Trump campaign finally and say that the election was rigged against her?
To little, to late.
First step in checks and balances. Many more will be needed.
Can someone reply with the link to the live election results Josh has promoted in several blog posts in the last couple of weeks? I’m not seeing it on the main page. Nor am I referring to the polltracker. I’m interested in creating a CVT graph of the TX data. Thanks.
It’s a loss. A tough, tragic, sickening loss. One good reason to delay concession - let the western state votes be tallied. There is a damn good chance of Clinton winning the popular vote. If that happens, the point needs to be enshrined forever in the concession speech. Pre-empt any claims of a mandate with a simple fact anyone can understand - more Americans wanted Hillary Clinton to be president.