Celebrating 100 Years of Journalism Excellence VOL. 108 No.11
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2016
NTDAILY.COM
TRUMP SURGES Trump, Republicans take country by storm Donald Trump appeared to have the lead as the last states tallied their electoral votes. The election was down to Ohio and Florida, which both went Trump late Tuesday evening. Although most polls had Hillary Clinton up days before the election, Trump pulled off the upset early in the night with The New York Times having him above 50 percent likelihood of winning before all ballots were counted. Two hours before midnight his likelihood of winning was above 95 percent. Trump won electoral votes in West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Louisiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Nevada and Utah. At the time of this report, The New York Times election results map predicted that Trump would win Arizona, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia and New Hampshire. Clinton won Vermont, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Maryland, Washington D.C., Virginia, Illinois, Colorado, New Mexico, Washington, Oregon and California. Those votes were not enough to clinch her spot as first female president. At the time of this report, The New York Times election results map predicted that Clinton would win Nevada, Minnesota and Maine. At the time of this report, according to The New York Times, Trump leads with 244 electoral votes and Clinton trails with 215. If the election goes as projected according to the Times, Trump will win with 301 and Clinton will lose with 237. In the 2004 election, Republican candidate George Bush won 286 of the electoral votes while John Kerry won 252. During that election, 59,729,986 popular votes went to Bush and 56,249,862 popular votes went to Kerry. The 2016 election shows similarities with the 2004 election. In Denton County the polls closed at 7 p.m. and showed Donald Trump and Mike Pence won the Denton County presidential and vice presidential election by a large margin of almost 21 percent. With 124 of 158 precincts reporting, Donald Trump and Mike Pence won 58.13 percent of the votes, Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine won 37.16 percent, Gary Johnson and William Weld won 3.84 percent and Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka won 0.87 percent. Denton cast 163,675 votes for Donald Trump and Mike Pence; 104,634 vote for Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine; 10,818 for Gary Johnson and William Weld and 2,442 votes for Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka. Voter turnout ended at 52.34 percent and the total votes in the county were 245,050. A Republican majority in Denton isn’t unprecedented. In the 2012 election, Republican
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Lynn Stucky wins Texas House District 64 seat Lynn Stucky defeated UNT student Connor Flanagan in the Texas House District 64 race by a margin of 23.16 percent with 40 out of 44 precincts reporting. The early voting election results are 61.58 percent to Stucky, and 38.42 percent to Flanagan. “I will stay immersed in the community, a large number of people in the community know who I am and what I stand for,”
Lynn said. “Our next move will to start looking for a place in Austin, and prepare for orientation and staff my practice.” Out of a total of 148,350 earlyvoting ballots, Stucky claimed 31,396 votes and Flanagan’s campaign took 19,588 votes. Stucky’s campaign manager and wife, Lori Stucky, said she loved the early election results. “We worked hard and what
we are seeing is our work paying off,” Lori said. “The people are supporting him and it is amazing.” Lynn said he is going to continue to say thanks to his constituents throughout this race, and won’t stop working to represent the people. “I would like to think I am
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Students join in on campus-wide watch parties Students all across UNT spent election night huddled together, looking between computer screens, television projects and live updates to keep up to date with the latest information regarding the 2016 presidential election. Whether it was in a small dorm room or surrounded by hundreds of fellow students at Willis Library, the results came pouring
in and students kept biting their nails. Home sweet watch party Students in Kerr and Bruce Hall were diligently watching with their hall mates and sharing their opinions over the possible results. “It’s such an odd election,” computer science freshman Jacklyn Rechy said. “Just the
general feel of the election right now. Everyone’s gonna watch it and want to know the results, just because a lot of people are kind of anxious to see who wins.” Students at UNT continued to look closely at various aspects of Trump and Clinton, even after polls closed.
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IN THIS ELECTION ELECTION
How We Voted pg 4 & 5 Denton County. The state of Texas. The United States of America. See how the country voted on Election Day 2016. Check NTDaily.com for the latest results.
COMMENTARY
Locals Sound Off pg 7 Our reporters interviewed hundreds of people ahead of the election. See what they had to say inside as the results continue to come in.
SPORTS
The Latest pg 6 Check the most recent news from North Texas athletics. Though the Mean Green lost at homecoming, the football team has a chance at a good season.
OPINION
A New Kind of Leader pg 8 This election lasted a long time, and the results were pouring in. It’s time to move forward. And that happens when people on both sides work together.