As it happened: Donald Trump elected President of the United States in shock defeat of Hillary Clinton
Former outsider sweeps to decisive victory after winning key battleground states
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Your support makes all the difference.Donald Trump has been elected President of the United States in the biggest shock in the country's electoral history. Here are the things you need to know:
- European leaders warn of 'new era of uncertainty'
- Hillary Clinton gives concession speech: 'For all the girls and women watching this, don't give up'
- Stunned world reacts to Mr Trump's victory
- Victor pledges to be 'President for all Americans' in speech
- Billionaire reality star's journey to the White House
- What happens next
- Barack Obama invites successor to White House
- How Mr Trump won the election
- ...and how victory slipped through Ms Clinton's fingers
- Theresa May congratulates the President-elect
- Jeremy Corbyn calls Mr Trump's policies 'wrong'
- Nigel Farage will be first UK politician to meet victor
- Former KKK leader claims support sealed victory
- Financial markets drop as analysts fear 'Brexit all over again'
- How British politicians reacted to the election of Donald Trump
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Donald Trump has been named the shock victor of the US presidential election, pledging to be a "President for all Americans".
In a victory speech in New York, the Republican candidate, vowed to unite the country following a divisive campaign littered with controversies.
“Now it’s time for America to bind the wounds of division…I say it is time for us to come together as one united people,” he said, as supporters chanted “USA! USA! USA!”.
Amid widespread concern over international tensions following Mr Trump’s comments on countries including China and Russia, he insisted he expected “great relationships” with foreign nations.
“America will no longer settle for anything less than best, - we must reclaim our country’s destiny,” he added. “I want to tell the world community that while we will always put America’s interests first, we will always deal fairly with everyone – all people and all other nations.
“We will seek common ground, not hostility. Partnership, not conflict.”
Hillary Clinton phoned Mr Trump in the early hours of Wednesday morning to concede defeat but made no immediate public comment.
As her loss looked ever more certain, she tweeted: "Whatever happens tonight, thank you for everything."
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Donald Trump has been doing the rounds in phone interviews to the TV networks as voting gets underway across the US.
He's already been on CNN, and speaking on "Fox and Friends" he said the presidential campaign has been an "amazing process" that put him in touch with the unfulfilled aspirations of the American people.
The Republican presidential nominee said he's seen "so many hopes and dreams that didn't happen, that could have been helped with proper leadership."
Trump says he "took a little heat" for bringing up "illegal immigration" from the day he launched his campaign, but "in the end it was the right thing to do."
Trump said his campaign is a "movement" and the American people are "incredible."
Asked if he had any regrets, Trump said "sure, there's things I would have done different." He didn't name any.
There are a few polls out this morning from surveys conducted right up to Election Day, though they show little movement from what we've seen in the past few days.
One national poll, a tracker from International Business Daily/TIPP, shows Donald Trump 2 points ahead of Hillary Clinton.
Before alarm bells start ringing, it is worth noting that IBD/TIPP have had Trump on +2 for a while now, and that their poll has been an outlier when compared to the rest of the national polls more or less throughout the campaign. It uses some unusual methodology, which may explain the difference.
An Ipsos/Reuters web poll out this morning has Clinton 5 points ahead.
A couple of state polls are out which confirm what we already knew - strong leads for Clinton in Washington and California.
And state polls conducted from 4 Nov - 6 Nov also show the candidates tied on 42 per cent in Nevada, a key swing state, and Trump 2 points ahead in Arizona.
Those state polls all from Insights West.
Polling booths still aren't quite open across the whole of the US yet - it'll be another hour and 15 mins before LA booths open at 7am local time.
But state leaders, voting experts and advocates say they are already concerned about the potential for an unusual level of confusion and chaos as voters cast their ballots following an historically bitter presidential race.
Early voters in some states have faced hours-long lines the past several days. Democrats have filed a flurry of last-minute lawsuits alleging voter intimidation by Donald Trump supporters. And there have been some heated polling site confrontations between Trump voters and Hillary Clinton backers.
Election monitors are especially worried this year about the specter of voter intimidation after calls by the Republican candidate for his supporters to stake out polling places and watch for fraud.
On that issue of voter intimidation, Google has been tracking trending issues relating to the election in a live map of search results across the US.
Google's live map of what issues people are searching about shows that there is more interest in the phrase 'voter intimidation' at the moment than any other issue, including 'long wait times' and 'provisional ballots'.
According to Google, there was a 160% spike in searches for voter intimidation in Pleasant Run, Ohio, and an unspecified increase in Waterman, Illinois.
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