America has chosen its next leader... and
it is...
Donald J. Trump.
In one of the most shocking U.S. elections
in modern political history, Donald Trump
has defeated Hillary Clinton.
Polls were wrong, surveys, reports were all
misleading.
How did Donald Trump strip down Clinton's
blue wall?
Let's go to our Lee Unshin at Arirang's election
center:
Unshin, what happened?
How did pollsters get it so wrong?
Connyoung, your guess is as good as mine.
But, the bottom line is... with at least 278
electoral votes...
Donald Trump is set to become America's next
leader.
And it wasn't even close -- Hillary Clinton's
numbers were at 218.
As you've said, almost all the projections
we have been following turned out to be wrong,
so let's take a look at the comprehensive
breakdown of what happened on November 8th.
To begin with, many states tend to be solidly
red or blue, such as Texas and California...
and these big states with big numbers of Electoral
votes were a given for both candidates from
the start.
So it really all came down to the 11 so-called
swing states, where both candidates made their
final efforts into campaigning 'til the very
end.
Trump and Clinton were neck-and-neck until
late at night on Tuesday, but as the results
came in from those battleground states, the
advantage for Trump became clear.
Around 11 p.m. local time, the biggest bombshells
of the night came in, as media outlets called
three states for Trump: Florida, North Carolina
and Ohio.
Together, they ended up giving 62 electoral
votes to Trump, and leading to some early
celebrations for Republicans who started to
smell victory.
It was a close race in Florida, 49 to 47-point-7
percent... a big disappointment for Democrats,
as they were really counting on the state
where President Obama won in the last two
elections... just like the state of Ohio.
In the early hours of Wednesday morning, Trump
reached 244 votes, and Clinton had just 215
-- and remember those INCLUDE the 55 she got
from California -- so at that point Trump's
victory became almost certain.
Clinton claimed Virginia, Colorado and Nevada,
but Trump carried on to sweep more purple
states, sealing his victory in Pennsylvania,
another big loss of 20 votes for Clinton -- and
an unexpected one.
Pennsylvania had gone blue for the last 6
consecutive elections, including those of
Bill Clinton.
What put Trump over the magic number of 270
votes was Alaska and Wisconsin, leaving Clinton
far behind, allowing us to go ahead and announce
him as the new President-Elect of the United
States.
Connyoung.
