This Morning from CBS News, Nov. 9, 2016
President-elect Trump
Delivering a shock to the nation’s pollsters and the world at large, Donald Trump was elected early this morning to be the 45th president of the United States. He took the stage before a raucous crowd of supporters and announced that Hillary Clinton had called him to concede. Then, taking a more conciliatory tone than he has in a year, he vowed to be “president for all our citizens.”
How he did it
Many observers thought this election would be decided by Donald Trump’s polarizing rhetoric, history of behavior toward women and questionable qualifications for the office. But CBS News exit polls suggest it was more a Clinton loss than a Trump victory. She won a lot of minority votes, but not enough to overcome her deficit with white voters. Clinton’s gender may also have been a factor in the outcome.
New reality
Donald Trump’s victory has demolished so many baseline assumptions and truisms of American politics, on which politicians and journalists alike have based their thoughts and predictions, that it will likely forever change the way we think about and report on politics. We look at some of the most basic assumptions that, after Tuesday, have been completely upended.
Delegator-in-chief?
Will Rahn says the first thing we’ll find out now is how interested Donald Trump is in actually doing the things a president does. Many suggested Trump didn’t really want to be president. Clearly he did, but that doesn’t mean he won’t be happy to outsource much of the mundane, day-to-day stuff. So, will Mike Pence be the most powerful VP ever?
World reacts
From celebration in Russia and among Europe’s rising anti-immigration far-right politicians, to nervous messages of congratulations from NATO and elsewhere, the world is grappling this morning with a U.S. election victory that has shocked America’s allies and its adversaries.
Stock shock
The fallout for investors in the U.S. and overseas could resemble what happened after Britain’s “Brexit” vote -- only bigger -- judging by how swiftly and steeply global markets descended into chaos once Donald Trump’s surprising path to victory became clear.
Prop 64
The marijuana industry got a boost on election night. Voters in several states approved measures to legalize recreational pot. Campaigns spent millions of dollars both supporting the measures, and opposing them. We meet some of the people on the front lines of the political war over weed.
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