By REENA FLORES CBS NEWS November 9, 2016, 4:04 AM

In a Stunner, Donald Trump

Wins the Presidency
Donald Trump, in a major upset, was elected the 45th president of the
United States over Hillary Clinton.
He took the stage early Wednesday morning before a raucous crowd of
supporters in midtown Manhattan.
I just received a call from Secretary Clinton, he said. She congratulated
us on our victory. And I congratulated her on a hard-fought campaign.
He praised Clinton for the hard work shes done for the country, and told
the crowd that we owe her a major debt of gratitude for her service to our
country.
Polls going into Election Day had largely shown Clinton ahead by a few
points, though the expectation was that the race would be tight. By early
Wednesday, Trump had won 289 electoral votes and the popular vote,
compared to Clintons 218. Minnesota, Michigan and New Hampshire had
not been counted yet, and Trump lost his home state of New York. After a
bitterly fought election, Trump delivered a unifying message -- he called on
all Republicans and Democrats to come together as one united people
and he pledged to every citizen that I will be president for all our citizens.

Donald Trump elected 45th president of the United States

It was a remarkably conciliatory speech from a candidate who had
employed more fiery rhetoric his campaign and endured few slights
silently.
The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer,
he promised.
Trump pledged to fix our inner cities, rebuild the nations infrastructure,
and finally take care of our great veterans.

America will no longer settle for anything less than the best, he pledged.
The U.S. will double its growth and have the strongest economy anywhere
in the world, Trump said. And he promised to seek common ground and
not hostility.
Clintons concession call came as a surprise to some of her staffers, who
first heard of her call from reporters. Indeed, not long before Trump spoke,
the Democratic nominee had dispatched her campaign manager, John
Podesta to her election watching party at the Javits Center to send her
supporters home and wait for more conclusive results.
The crowd, which had appeared worried and despondent on TV screens as
the returns for Clinton showed an ever narrower path to victory listened as
Podesta told them it had been a long campaign, But I can say, we can wait
a little longer, cant we, he asked. Theyre still counting votes, and every
vote should count.
Clinton and her campaign had been confident of victory going into election
night, CBS News Nancy Cordes reported. All of the data they were looking
at told them she would win. And in the early hours Wednesday, Cordes said
her campaign was going over the data again, while also looking for any
voting irregularities that might have occurred.
Trumps victory was a stunning upset -- the political neophyte, who
thought little of data gathering, the ground game or TV ads, ended up
carrying several key battleground states, including states Democrats had
little to no expectation of losing.
The fears of Trumps down-ballot effect also turned out to be unfounded.
The Senate remains in Republican hands, as does the House.
Trumps dominance was also seen during the primary season, when he
knocked out 16 other Republican rivals in his partys primaries earlier this
year, with a candidacy built on the slogan of making America great again
-- a promise predicated on increased isolationism. He has proposed a ban
on Muslims from entering the U.S., the building of a wall on the southern
border, the tearing up of international trade deals, and the reworking of
defense treaties.
While garnering only lackluster support for his legislative agenda among
top Republican lawmakers, Trump also alienated many for his
controversial rhetoric both on the campaign trail.

Donald Trump's historic win

Early in his primary bid, the New York businessman targeted Arizona Sen.
John McCain, his partys former presidential nominee and a Vietnam War
veteran, and said he wasnt a war hero he was captured as a prisoner of
war. His attacks on his own party elders didnt end there: Later, Trump
lashed out at vocal critic South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham by giving
away his personal cell phone number at a campaign rally. Trump mocked
the disability of a New York Times reporter at a campaign rally after he
contested the candidates account of New Jersey Muslims celebrating
9/11.After he became the Republican nominee, Trump called House
Speaker Paul Ryan a weak and ineffective leader.
During the general election, after Khizr Khan, the father of a Muslim
soldier who lost his life fighting in the Iraq War, gave a speech at the
Democratic convention criticizing Trump, the real estate magnate leveled
criticisms at the Gold Star family. And of the women who came forward
and accused him of sexually predatory behavior spanning decades, he
suggested they were lying -- and also unattractive enough for him to even
consider assaulting.
Clinton, the strong media and polling favorite to win the election, targeted
all those controversies in her campaign against Trump -- to little avail. The
Democratic nominee has not yet given a concession speech.
CBS News Hannah Fraser-Chanpong contributed to this report
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