Hey y'all, it's the NPR politics podcast, and Donald Trump will be the 45th president

of the United States.

The Republican Party has also retained control of the Senate giving the President Trump

a fully Republican Congress.

This has been a truly historic night and not in the way a lot of people predicted.

I'm Sam Sanders, campaign reporter.

I'm Asma Khaled, I cover demographics in the campaign.

I'm Susan Davis, I cover Congress.

And I'm Ron Elving, Editor-Corespondent.

In the booth right now at 3.20 AM, and we, like a lot of folks, are saying, how did this

happen?

It's surprised just about every pollster and every journalist.

What happened, Ron?

The professionals were wrong.

The professionals in the media, the professionals in the business of running campaigns, and the

people who do polling for a living.

Now there were a couple of outliers out there, but there were literally scores and hundreds.

The polls done nationally and also in the swing states, the battleground states, and

they were almost perfectly uniformly wrong.

This is not to say that there was a huge margin of support for Clinton.

And it was a close campaign, a close race all along, but the pollsters and the pros.

And I would go so far as to say even people within the Trump campaign were signaling today,

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