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Wednesday, November 9, 2016
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Volume 105, No. 57
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Students, faculty brace for results Trump wins stunning victory over Clinton ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Ole Miss students, faculty and staff braced themselves for the results of the 2016 presidential election at various watch parties across campus. Groups and residence halls hosted watch parties on and off campus. Student Libby Summer patiently waited outside the courtyard of Residence Hall 2 and 3 along with 40 other students at the Pajamas and Politics watch party. “I’m super scared,” Summer, who is from Madison, said. “Super scared, like moving to another country if Hillary wins.” Summer was attending the watch party with friend Lauren James, who is also from
Madison. Together, the two watched as the ballots came in showing Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump both running a tight race. “It’s going to be really close,” James said. “I personally don’t want either one of them in office, but if I had to choose, I would much rather Donald Trump be in there than Hillary Clinton.” Overlooking the watch party was James Duncan, a security guard from the University Police Department. “I’m just here to make sure everyone here is safe,” Duncan said. “I can’t really say who is going to win, but from what I can tell it’s going to be pretty close.” At Deupree Hall, students
pre-gamed with pizza and cupcakes. Senior and first-time voter Josh Tucker said it was exciting to be a part of the election. “I think that the most important issue is probably going to be the Supreme Court justice decision,” Tucker said. “We know that President Obama has nominated Judge Garland, and the Senate has yet to approve his nomination. It will be up to the next president to decide who that Supreme Court judge should be.” Ole Miss Senior Tyler Flynn said no matter what happens, he wants to see
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NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump awakened a movement of angry working-class voters fed up with political insiders and desperate for change. On Tuesday, that movement propelled him to the White House. Trump’s stunning, come-frombehind victory over Hillary Clinton served as a symbolic raised middle finger to the political establishment from his fervent backers. But to millions of others, the billionaire businessman’s elevation to the presidency is a shocking, catastrophic blow that threatens the security and identity of a bitterly divided nation. Many see the president-elect as a racist, a bigot and a misogynist
unfit for the office. “He scares the daylights out of me,” said Wendy Bennett, a Democrat and government worker from Reno, Nevada, who cast her ballot for Clinton. “I think his personality is going to start World War III. He reminds me of Hitler.” Lisa Moore, a registered Republican from Glen Rock, New Jersey, crossed party lines to vote for Clinton, who would have been the nation’s first female president. “As a woman, in good conscience, and as the mother of a daughter, I can’t vote for somebody who’s so morally reprehen-
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