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Journalists Retell Their Election Night Horror Stories ('People were throwing up. People were....)
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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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; boohoo; electionnight; journalism; tears; trumpanniversary; vomit
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To: Sub-Driver

41 posted on 11/06/2017 1:24:16 PM PST by red-dawg
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To: JimRed

“Not nearly enough of ‘em jumped off of buildings.”

OR

Went to Canada...

I want to see the second edition of this book when they “LOCK HER UP”


42 posted on 11/06/2017 1:24:19 PM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: All

More evidence that liberalism is a mental disorder.


43 posted on 11/06/2017 1:24:35 PM PST by Theophilous Meatyard III
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To: tumblindice; Lurker

If they last more than four years, you may have to call the doctor!

;P


44 posted on 11/06/2017 1:25:39 PM PST by Charles H. (The_r0nin) (Hwaet! Lar bith maest hord, sothlice!)
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To: higgmeister

No guns. These leftards are so stupid they might shoot an innocent bystander. What happened to slitting their wrists or hanging themselves? And i thought leftards were creative people...


45 posted on 11/06/2017 1:26:03 PM PST by beergarden
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To: Dr. Sivana

Was it halal?


46 posted on 11/06/2017 1:27:18 PM PST by shotgun
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To: Sub-Driver

It...tastes...so...sweet


47 posted on 11/06/2017 1:27:51 PM PST by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: Sub-Driver

I want video.


48 posted on 11/06/2017 1:28:12 PM PST by gathersnomoss
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To: Cowboy Bob

Yep and it keeps getting better.


49 posted on 11/06/2017 1:28:58 PM PST by jospehm20
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To: Lurker
Schadenboner. It won’t go away.

LMAO. Aren't you supposed to call a doctor if that lasts more than six hours, or something like that?

50 posted on 11/06/2017 1:29:40 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("Tell them to stand!" -- President Trump, 9/23/2017)
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To: Sub-Driver; All
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51 posted on 11/06/2017 1:30:05 PM PST by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Sung to the Folgers jingle.

“The best part about wak’n up, is know’n Hillary lost to Trump!”


52 posted on 11/06/2017 1:31:31 PM PST by READINABLUESTATE ("If guns cause crime, there must be something wrong with mine." -Ted Nugent)
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To: mrsmith
“The corporate media—they’ve always been wrong the entire time—these numbers are wrong.”

Anyone who followed the statespoll.com adjusted polls knew that Trump was much closer, if not ahead, in the election. The D+9 model was not going to happen.

-PJ

53 posted on 11/06/2017 1:31:41 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: Sub-Driver

“Feel-good story of the day” alert...


54 posted on 11/06/2017 1:32:26 PM PST by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: Sub-Driver

I bathe in Schadenfreude.......


55 posted on 11/06/2017 1:32:36 PM PST by clintonh8r (I've been banned from TheHill.com. #Proud)
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To: Sub-Driver

I know what it feels like to fall on the floor crying and screaming “no.” So this really offends me. These losers have no idea what real tragedy is.


56 posted on 11/06/2017 1:33:40 PM PST by Mercat (I know my redeemer lives.)
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To: Sub-Driver

I remember the night very well.

I also remember election night 2012. I was in disbelief that Obama could be re-elected POTUS. He was such a dunce, and Benghazi had just happened. The obvious incompetence of the Obama administration seemed obvious to me, so I went to bed finally and lay there shivering. I was so overwrought that I could not stop my shaking and shivering. After about 2 hours I finally got to sleep.

Last year, however, I remember calling my Florida relaives when FL was called for Trump. They were celebrating. Next I called a cousin in Milwaukee when Wisconsin was called. We were so happy, and she needed someone to talk to as she was uncertain how her children voted.

When I final went to bed, they were still waiting for Michigan and Pennsylvania to be called but DT was ahead. I woke up at about 1:30 CST and turned on my Wave radio when Jim Bonannon [I tnink] announced that DT had claimed victory and was about to enter the auditorium and speak to a crowd. So I had to get up and watch the victory speech. It was the happiest I had ever been to get out of bed at 1:30 am voluntarily.

So sad that I/we were never given the opportunity to hear Hillary Clinton concede the election.

As a matter of fact, I do believe I am still waiting for her to concede the election to Donald Trump.


57 posted on 11/06/2017 1:34:46 PM PST by Gumdrop (She made her bed and is now lying in it.)
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To: Lurker

Heh. I’m starting to put on the pounds from all the schadenfreude pie I’ve been eating. It’s deeeeeeeelicious!


58 posted on 11/06/2017 1:34:53 PM PST by Noumenon (Can you imagine if Islam were NOT the religion of peace?)
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To: tflabo

No. It was a full moon last night. But it will be large.


59 posted on 11/06/2017 1:35:41 PM PST by Mercat (I know my redeemer lives.)
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To: Sub-Driver

BEST

ELECTION

EVAH !!!!


60 posted on 11/06/2017 1:36:10 PM PST by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
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