Reports the CIA has concluded that Russian hacking of Democratic emails was aimed at helping Donald Trump defeat Hillary Clinton, a step beyond the intelligence community's earlier finding that Russia was simply trying to cast doubt on the integrity of our elections.
In the wake of a Trump victory, the Democratic Party is tacking to the left in an attempt to harness the populist message that put Trump in the White House.
First of all, people were not expecting [Donald Trump] to win. I still think they're in shell-shock four months later. Get over it.
I even believe [Donald Trump] won a little after - after the election rethinking, I think if we'd spent a little more time in Minnesota, we would've won Minnesota.
First of all, I think everybody has to acknowledge don't underestimate the guy [Donald Trump], because he's going to be 45th president of the United States.
Donald Trump won, or he got the majority of the electoral votes, a large majority. I think it would be patronizing to say that the majorities of people in Florida and Ohio, smaller majorities in Wisconsin and Michigan, that they voted for him because they were misled by something on Facebook.
There was an analyst who came out the other day who's had a long track record of projecting presidential campaigns based on the economy and other kind of factors. And he said if [Donald] Trump stays about where he is right now, he'll win at about 51 or 52 percent. If Trump actually gets his act together in a disciplined way, he could win by as much as 66 percent.
Donald Trump won the election by three million votes, if you throw out California and New York. You throw out California, New York, Trump wins by three million votes. If you include California and New York Hillary wins by, what was it, 2.5 or 2.2 million votes. It's a perfect illustration of why we have the Electoral College.
What was this big sound bite, though, at the time? It was, "Will Donald Trump and his supporters accept the election results." He won.
I mean, [Donald Trump] won by a sizable margin.
This is all very interesting, but Donald Trump won in an electoral landslide that had nothing to do with the Russians.
There's no question that [Donald] Trump got elected because of rural America. And our party still is in denial. They don't get it.
These Hillary supporters just drove a car into a giant ditch named Trump. They let Trump win. They let him become the most powerful man on Earth. Sorry, you're not getting the wheel again after driving into the ditch.
[Donald Trump] has a pretty sizable electoral map win, much more than anybody thought.
I honestly thought we wouldn't hold the U.S. Senate. I thought we'd come up short and I didn't think President Donald Trump had a chance of winning. Given my expectations, doubly exciting because I thought we'd come up short on the Senate. We had a lot of exposure. That was really something. But it never occurred to me that he might be able to win as well.
We flipped over 200 counties that President [Barack] Obama won and Donald Trump just won, you [Jennifer Palmieri] think that's because of what you just said or because people aren't ready for a woman president?
[Donald Trump] was a better candidate; that's how he won.
[Hillary] Clinton, she conceded. [Donald Trump] beat her.
When Donald Trump won the election because when I came into the show, I said, I think this guy can win. This was when he first came down that escalator. He gave his first speech.
The campaign is over. The people have spoken. And this man [Donald Trump] busted through a blue wall that nobody expected. He won states like Wisconsin and Michigan and Pennsylvania, which should have been Hillary Clinton's the whole time. And they were his because of the message, because of the way he's a master communicator and a master connecter.
I know some of you people, "Well, Rush, what do you mean Donald Trump won by 2.8? You can't throw out New York and California." Well, they are. They are. When they say the Russians hacked the election, which didn't happen, by the way.
[Donald] Trump's path to victory depends on getting historic levels of support from white voters, and particularly large numbers of white, non-college-educated voters.
U.S. stocks did not recoil from Trump's electoral victory, instead setting a record for election-to-year-end gains.
In 2016, Hillary Clinton had so much more money than the Trump campaign, yet, we see who won that election.
Frankly, Donald Trump won the candidacy for the Republican Party. Let's get on board and help him win.
