If Bernie Won Democratic Primary, Would We Now Be Looking at a Sanders Presidency? | Democracy Now! Digest 11/09/2016

How Do We Explain to Young People We Have a Sexist, Racist Islamophobe in the White House? & Just Like After Reconstruction, Trump Vote Highlights White Backlash to Recent Racial Progress & More Democracy Now! Daily Digest A Daily Independent Global News Hour with Amy Goodman & Juan González Wednesday, November 9, 2016 democracynow.org Stories If Bernie Won Democratic Primary, Would We Now Be Looking at a Sanders Presidency? On election night, Republican Donald Trump claimed victories in battleground states where Democrat Bernie Sanders's campaign found enthusiastic support during ... Read More → How Do We Explain to Young People We Have a Sexist, Racist Islamophobe in the White House? "We failed our young people. We failed generations to come," says Linda Sarsour in response to the upset victory of Donald Trump for president after he ran on a ... Read More → Just Like After Reconstruction, Trump Vote Highlights White Backlash to Recent Racial Progress "If one studies history, this is not a surprising outcome," award-winning racial justice reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones says about Donald Trump's election win. ... Read More → What Happens Now to the Millions of Immigrants Facing Possible Deportation Under Trump? Donald Trump repeatedly attacked immigrants during his campaign for president. We get reaction to his victory from Jose Antonio Vargas, Pulitzer Prize-winning ... Read More → From the First African-American President to One Supported by the Ku Klux Klan: Trump Wins in Upset Donald J. Trump was elected 45th president of the United States on Tuesday, defeating Hillary Rodham Clinton in a stunning upset that reverberated around the ... Read More → A Divided Nation: As Trump Wins Electoral College, Clinton Wins Popular Vote John Nichols, political writer for The Nation, argues Donald Trump's upset victory to win at least 270 Electoral College votes and become U.S. president is ... Read More → "It Might Not Be Good for America, But It's Good for Us": How the Media Got Rich on Trump's Rise Earlier this year, CBS CEO Leslie Moonves openly bragged that the network is getting rich off Donald Trump's run for the White House. "It may not be good for ... Read More → In Victory for Immigrants' Rights Activists, Sheriff Joe Arpaio Loses Re-election in Arizona In other campaign news from Arizona, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio lost his bid for a seventh term. Arpaio faces the possibility of jail time, after federal ... Read More → Lee Fang: Donald Trump Recruits Corporate Lobbyists to Select His Future Administration Donald Trump may have run as an economic populist, but journalist Lee Fang examines how he has surrounded himself by corporate lobbyists. Fang reports ... Read More → Trump Biographer Wayne Barrett on Donald Trump's Shocking Rise to the White House We speak about the man who is now America's president-elect with Wayne Barrett, who writes for the New York Daily News and The Daily Beast and has ... Read More → Allan Nairn: Did the FBI Hand the Election to Donald Trump? Longtime investigative journalist Allan Nairn responds to FBI Director James Comey's actions that jolted the presidential race a week and a half ago, when he ... Read More → What Led to Trump's Victory? From Racial Fear to Economic Populism We discuss what led to Donald Trump's surprise victory with Nikole Hannah-Jones, who covers racial injustice at The New York Times Magazine, and Lee Fang, ... Read More → In Trump White House, Will Mike Pence Become the Most Powerful Vice President in History? According to The New York Times, Donald Trump's son called John Kasich's adviser before the Republican National Convention asking if the governor wanted to be ... Read More → Headlines → Donald Trump Elected 45th President of the United States Hillary Clinton Supporters Shocked by Loss to Donald Trump Early-Morning Protests Spring Up After Donald Trump Victory Republicans Retain House and Senate Majority Republican Sweep Likely to Tilt Supreme Court Balance Stock Markets in Turmoil as Donald Trump Stages Upset Long Lines, Voter ID Laws and Fewer Polling Places Suppress Turnout House Speaker Paul Ryan Confident He Will Retain Leadership Role Wisconsin: Russ Feingold Loses to GOP Incumbent Sen. Ron Johnson Florida: Republican Senator Marco Rubio Re-elected Gubernatorial Races Split Between Republicans, Democrats California: Kamala Harris Elected as Second-Ever Black Woman U.S. Senator Voters Raise Minimum Wage, Support Death Penalty, Legalize Marijuana Minnesota: Ilhan Omar Elected as First-Ever Somali-American Legislator Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio Loses Bid for Seventh Term, May Be Jailed California: Gunman Fires Near Polling Place, Killing 1 and Injuring 2 Orlando, FL Night Club to Become a Memorial to Gun Massacre Victims World Meteorological Organization Says Recent Years Hottest on Record Trump Climate Denial Threatens U.N. Climate Change Agreement Indian Supreme Court Orders Action on Toxic Air Pollution Crisis Forward this email → Donate today → Follow SPECIAL BROADCAST WATCH: Election Night 2016 Coverage with Democracy Now! NEW BOOK Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America DN! 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