Two months before the American presidential election, this week we meet five historic “losers” of the elections, in the company of Françoise Coste, professor of American civilization at the University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès. In this last episode, La Loupe looks back at a recent and resounding defeat, that of Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump.
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Charlotte Baris: A few hours before the November 2016 presidential election, most American political commentators seem confident. The New York Times gives Hillary Clinton a 90% chance of winning, and the Huffington Post gives her a 98% chance. Here, too, she is the favorite, and the start of election night proves them right. Clinton first wins several highly populated states in the Northeast, a habit for Democrats. The first concerns appear when the Florida results come in.
In France, we still go to bed convinced that Hillary Clinton will be president. But on the other side of the Atlantic, the evening continues. Donald Trump wins most of the Southern and Midwestern states – which was expected, as well as – and this is more surprising – the industrial states of the Rust Belt. On the TV sets, some journalists seem stunned.
Hillary Clinton may have won the highly populated states of the West Coast, but it is too late, she is far behind. Her defeat becomes very clear during the night. A few hours later, at waking time in France: it is a shock. Donald Trump is the big winner of the election. Hillary Clinton, the big favorite, will not become the first female president of the United States.
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