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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: Charles H. (The_r0nin)

I just use a DeSantis IWB holster, um, er ... for pocket pistols.


61 posted on 11/06/2017 1:36:46 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: Sub-Driver

Bitches....


62 posted on 11/06/2017 1:36:56 PM PST by gathersnomoss
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To: bagster

Between the dancing and fireworks, we took a brief moment to realize and revel in just how unhappy our domestic enemies were.


63 posted on 11/06/2017 1:37:34 PM PST by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: shotgun

It means “permissible” and refers to a Muslim diet. Did Google block you?


64 posted on 11/06/2017 1:37:57 PM PST by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Best election ever


65 posted on 11/06/2017 1:38:55 PM PST by stanne
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To: Sub-Driver

And I went to sleep in peace that night.
I should have been been handing out razor blades.

We should be mailing razor blades to all these drama queens.


66 posted on 11/06/2017 1:39:26 PM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: Sub-Driver

I was with about 50 poll workers watching the returns on 6 different channels at same time, my best memory of the night is watching them announce for Trump on the liberal channels


67 posted on 11/06/2017 1:39:56 PM PST by stockpirate (WHEN THEY OUTLAW GUNS ONLY THE LEFTISTS WILL HAVE GUNS)
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To: Sub-Driver

Thanks for the delicious memories, suckers!!


68 posted on 11/06/2017 1:41:28 PM PST by Batman11 ( The USA is not an ATM!)
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To: Sub-Driver

My wife and I watched two hours of collective video clips from that night yesterday.

We both realized the bullet we dodged and of how biased everyone else was against Trump.

And we laughed like silly at their crestfallen demeanor when it was clear Hell lost.


69 posted on 11/06/2017 1:41:38 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: gundog

Not catching the point your trying to make? I know what it means and was referring to the $12 pulled pork sandwich.


70 posted on 11/06/2017 1:42:25 PM PST by shotgun
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To: mrsmith
And Drudge says, “The corporate media—they’ve always been wrong the entire time—these numbers are wrong.”

Paging the Boo Hoo girl


71 posted on 11/06/2017 1:42:36 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Batman11

Oh and Kugle, Remnick and all the rest of you other propagandists, GFY!!!!!!!!


72 posted on 11/06/2017 1:43:05 PM PST by Batman11 ( The USA is not an ATM!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Delicious. My ecstasy over their agony.


73 posted on 11/06/2017 1:43:08 PM PST by IronJack
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To: Sub-Driver

I thought I would enjoy the article like a fine wine, but even leftist tears did little for me. The author interviewed mostly women, and no Trump supporters. Meh.
What a tragic glut of tearful tantrums.


74 posted on 11/06/2017 1:43:19 PM PST by sparklite2 (-)
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To: Sub-Driver

It is fun to relive the schadenfreude.

What a bunch of insane LOSER drama queens, they have not moved on at all.

LOSERS!

LOSERS!

LOSERS!


75 posted on 11/06/2017 1:44:05 PM PST by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves."a)
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To: Sub-Driver
"...people were throwing up..."


76 posted on 11/06/2017 1:44:05 PM PST by rlmorel (Liberals: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: ameribbean expat

“Hillary served pork sandwiches? Two key demographics in her base wouldn’t find that kosher or hallal.”

And they continue to be shocked that she lost. Totally politically tone deaf. Bubba would’ve been smarter, I think. Pork. Jews. Muslims. ...sigh...


77 posted on 11/06/2017 1:46:27 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (A person's greatest strength is his greatest weakness.)
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To: utahagen

You don’t get the irony of anything pork being served at a place named for Jewish senator?


78 posted on 11/06/2017 1:46:39 PM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Notice how are the stories aren’t from “real people?”

Stories are entirely from brain-dead metrosexual leftist media-types living in their bubble of Manhattan and Brooklyn.

LEAST representative group of Americans ever.


79 posted on 11/06/2017 1:46:46 PM PST by PGR88
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To: utahagen

You don’t get the irony of anything pork being served at a place named for Jewish senator?


80 posted on 11/06/2017 1:46:48 PM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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