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Head to octopusevo.'s U.S. election countdown podcast. I'm Ed Crooks in New York.

Well, the countdown is of course finally over.

Donald Trump shook the political establishment and clench the White House victory in the

small hours of Wednesday morning.

With me in the F.T.'s New York Newsroom to discuss this and more is Courtney Weaver of

political correspondent who was at the Javits centre on Tuesday night awaiting

Hillary Clinton and Sam Fleming our economics editor who was at Trump

headquarters in Midtown and also Adam Sampson who was here in the

newsroom watching the markets all night. Sam perhaps to start with you what was

it like on Tuesday night what was the what was the mood in the Trump camp and what

happened as the results came in?

The Trump supporters turning up at the midtown Hilton last night initially seemed fairly

tentative in terms of what they were expecting. You didn't have the sense of a bunch of supporters who were expecting a huge result.

Most of those who I did speak to were talking about it being a close battle, even if they were confident that Mr Trump would eventually prevail.

But it was really the initial signs that he was edging ahead in Florida around 830 that changed the mood in the in

the ballroom where he finally made his acceptance speech in the wee hours of

Wednesday morning that's that started to usher a real sense of that something the

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