Posted on 11/06/2017 1:11:18 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Journalists Retell Their Election Night Horror Stories
'People were throwing up. People were on the floor crying'
BY: Andrew Kugle November 6, 2017 2:32 pm
Reporters, editors, and other members of the media are reliving their election night horror stories in a new exclusive detailing what journalists and figures in the presidential campaigns themselves experienced on the night of Nov. 8, 2016.
Esquire interviewed 40 people who either covered or worked on one of the campaigns during the 2016 presidential election. The individuals gave their personal stories about the unexpected election of President Donald Trump and the defeat of Hillary Clinton. Most of the reporters and editors who were interviewed expressed shock and horror at Trump's upset victory.
Here are some of their stories.
Rebecca Traister, writer at large for New Yorker Magazine, shared her feelings on being confident about a Clinton victory and how she subsequently felt "so alone" when it was apparent that Clinton would lose. She also observed Clinton supporters throwing up and crying on the floor, according to Esquire, which recounted the progression of her thoughts throughout the night.
They were serving, like, $12 pulled pork sandwiches [at the Javits Center]. It was nuts, people were bouncing off the walls. Everyone genuinely believed she was going to win. I don't know if it made me feel more confident or not.
I felt so alone, I knew it was done. I was by myself on the floor. I started to cry.
I was thinking everything from, "I'm gonna have to rewrite my piece" to, "Can we stay in the U.S.?" I texted my husband, "Tell Rosie to go to bed. I don't want her to watch."
People were throwing up. People were on the floor crying.
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One reporter likened it to the Civil War, WW2 and 9/11.
You know it was serious if the cheap bastards were throwing up a twelve-dollar sandwich.
What is with the reference to the pulled pork sandwiches? Was that a good thing, or a bad thing? A harbinger of doom, perhaps?
President Trump is the leftists kryptonite. They moronically fear him like the plague. It’s an astonishing thing to behold ones so driven by irrational fears. Lunatics really. Is there a full moon on Nov 8th to howl by?
Idiots with NO life..isn’t it sad, and pathetic!
They are more than free to kill themselves..honestly it would be better for global warming -)
How sad. Those poor people.
They shoulda' come over to my house. I was having a fiesta, laughing, feasting, and dancing like Snoopy with my nose up.
Those guys don't know how to party.
They should all have owned a Luger to put in their mouths.
A Luger is better for the the drama!
I hope the ghost of murdered Seth Rich haunts them in their beds at night.
lol...Did her hubby text back...Get a Grip!..or more likely..YES Dear!.....Rosie shoulda have been named “Snowflake”....after her mother...
I had one at Super Bowl XXX in 1996 for $4. Inflation notwithstanding, these sound like a rip-off. The combination of banal observances and using “like” as a conjunction/filler word made me think of Moon Unit Zappa and “Valley Girl”. Totally.
I smiled for months after Trump got elected....every day. Could not keep the smirk off of my face:)
The Esquire story is TERRIFIC!
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a13266971/election-2016-behind-the-scenes/
“Steve Bannon: Jared [Kushner] and I were out on this balcony in Trump Tower. We looked at it on Jared’s iPhone. And the [exit polling] numbers were so bad that we regrouped inside. We look at each other and we go, “This can’t be right. It just can’t.” And Jared goes, “I got an idea, let’s call Drudge.” And Drudge says, “The corporate media—they’ve always been wrong the entire time—these numbers are wrong.” “
A cat couldn’t scratch mine, and a year’s gone by.
It is no longer just a funny saying. This is just more conformation of the fact that liberalism is indeed, a mental disorder.
Hillary served pork sandwiches? Two key demographics in her base wouldn’t find that kosher or hallal.
“Nothing but tears and puke as far as the eye can see”
if we could deal with 8 years of that america hating Hussien Obama you can deal with an American president that loves his country!
TTIWWP
Lol - are they just telling us these stories to help with the one year celebration? Do they not know how much we LOVE hearing these things? I didn’t know they were puking.....wow. That’s great. lol
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