US results: We 'outsmarted and outclassed' Clinton's campaign, says Team Trump
Washington: Donald Trump claimed his place Wednesday as America's 45th president, an astonishing victory for the celebrity businessman and political novice who capitalized on voters' economic anxieties, took advantage of racial tensions and overcame a string of sexual assault allegations on his way to the White House.
Trump's triumph over Hillary Clinton, not declared until well after midnight, will end eight years of Democratic dominance of the White House. He'll govern with Congress fully under Republican control and lead a country deeply divided by his rancorous campaign against Clinton. He faces fractures within his own party, too, given the numerous Republicans who either tepidly supported his nomination or never backed him at all.
As he claimed victory, Trump urged Americans to "come together as one united people."
Following is a timeline of events through the day:
Trump clinched the Presidency by winning most battleground states.
Donald Trump wins Louisiana and its eight electoral votes.
That extends his Electoral College total in Tuesday's elections to 137, compared with Hillary Clinton's 104.
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Clinton wins Connecticut. The result was not a surprise, as Connecticut was considered a safely Democratic state.
Clinton now has 104 electoral votes. Her Republican opponent Donald Trump has 129.
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Republican Eric Holcomb elected governor of Indiana; Democrat Jim Justice elected governor of West Virginia.
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Republican Johnny Isakson of Georgia re-elected to Senate.
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Republican Donald Trump wins Arkansas and its six electoral votes. The result was expected. Earlier polling showed Trump leading Clinton by double digits in the state where she served as first lady for 12 years while her husband was the governor.
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In Florida, which has 29 Electoral College votes, Trump has taken a lead of about 77,000.
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Hillary Clinton has won Rhode Island and its four electoral votes. That brings her total Tuesday to 48, compared with Donald Trump's 60. It takes 270 electoral votes to win the presidency.
Rhode Island has voted for Republicans for president only four times since 1928.
In 2012, President Barack Obama defeated Republican Mitt Romney in the state by about 27 percent.
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Donald Trump has won Texas, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Kansas and Nebraska while Hillary Clinton has won New York and Illinois.
Trump also on Tuesday won two of Nebraska's congressional districts. In the state that awards by congressional district, one remains too close to call.
Trump was awarded Texas' 38 electoral votes, the second-largest prize on the map. He also won six from Kansas, four from his victories in Nebraska and three apiece from Wyoming, North Dakota and South Dakota.
Clinton was awarded 20 from Illinois and 29 from New York, the state both candidates call home. Trump had declared he would try to win New York but never mounted a serious effort there.
The Republican nominee now has 123 electoral votes. Clinton has 97.
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Donald Trump has won Alabama and its nine electoral votes after Sen. Jeff Sessions endorsed the billionaire candidate. That brings Trump's total in the Electoral College to 60 votes, to Clinton's 44 votes.
It takes 270 votes to win the presidency. The results continue the state's streak of voting for Republicans every presidential election since 1980.
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Donald Trump has won Tennessee and its 11 electoral votes.
Tuesday's vote is the fifth presidential contest in a row in which the state voted for the Republican candidate. That includes the 2000 election, when native son Al Gore lost the state to Republican George W. Bush.
It takes 270 votes to win the presidency.
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Donald Trump has won South Carolina. The Republican nominee was awarded the state's nine electoral votes, giving him 40 for the night. The result was expected as the state has long been a Republican stronghold.
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Democrat Hillary Clinton has won Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware and the District of Columbia while Republican Donald Trump has captured Oklahoma.
Clinton was awarded Massachusetts' 11 electoral votes, 10 from Maryland, 14 from New Jersey and three each from Delaware and the nation's capital, giving her 44 for the night. Trump picked up seven from Oklahoma, giving him 31.
The results Tuesday were not surprising. Massachusetts and the District of Columbia are two of the nation's safest Democratic strongholds.
The last time Oklahoma went for a Democrat was 1964, when it voted for Lyndon Johnson. Maryland last went for the GOP in 1988. New Jersey has been a safe Democratic state for 20 years. Its governor, Chris Christie, is a close Trump ally but is saddled with low approval numbers.
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Republican Donald Trump has won West Virginia and its five electoral votes. The Mountain State was one of the billionaire's biggest supporters in the Republican primary. He is popular for promising to bring back coal jobs. Hillary Clinton had largely been largely shunned for making comments perceived as an affront to the industry.
The dynamic has resulted in one of the few states where Republicans didn't shy from the brash businessman and instead looked to ride his coattails. Many Democrats for congressional and other races scrambled to distance themselves from Clinton and refused to endorse her.
West Virginia has voted for Republican presidential candidates in each of the last four presidential races. It takes 270 electoral votes to win the presidency.
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Republican Donald Trump has won Kentucky and Indiana while Democrat Hillary Clinton has won Vermont. Trump was awarded Kentucky's eight electoral votes and Indiana's 11. Vermont gives Clinton three. These are the first states to be decided Tuesday in the 2016 general election.
The wins were expected. Vermont has voted for a Democrat every election since 1988, while Kentucky has gone Republican every cycle since 2000. Indiana is normally a Republican stronghold but went for President Barack Obama in 2008. The Republicans captured it again in 2012 and Trump's running mate, Mike Pence, is the state's governor. The winning candidate needs 270 electoral votes.
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Donald Trump wins Montana.
Republican Gary Herbert has been re-elected governor of Utah.
Herbert had a strong advantage in Tuesday's elections and was considered the favorite in the conservative state. But many Utah conservatives were not enthused about GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump. And Herbert had vacillated on his support for the New York billionaire.
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Republican Richard Burr of North Carolina re-elected to the Senate.
Hillary Clinton wins New Mexico.
Trump wins Missouri.
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Donald Trump won the key battleground state of Ohio, boosting his chances of pulling off an upset win in presidential election.
Hillary Clinton wins Virginia. Virginia has 13 electoral college votes and while the state's south leans Republican, its heavily-populated north -- which neighbors the capital Washington -- is staunchly Democratic, and helped put Clinton over the top.
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Hillary Clinton wins Colorado.
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Donald Trump wins Florida.
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Hillary Clinton wins California and Hawaii. Donald Trump wins Idaho's four electoral votes.
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Indian-American Raja Krishnamoorthi wins election to US House of Representatives from Illinois.
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Hillary Clinton wins Oregon.
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Donald Trump wins North Carolina and its 15 electoral votes.
The victory in Tuesday's elections brings the billionaire's electoral vote total to 216. Democrat Hillary Clinton has 197.
North Carolina was one of the hardest-fought contests of the election and is one of the map's newest swing states. It consistently went for Republicans until Barack Obama captured it in 2008. Republican Mitt Romney narrowly won the state in 2012.
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Hillary Clinton has won Washington state and its 12 electoral votes.
The victory in Tuesday's elections brings the former secretary of state's electoral vote total to 209. Republican Donald Trump has 216.
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Indian-American Kamala Harris scripts history, wins US Senate seat from California.
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Donald Trump wins Georgia. The Republican nominee was awarded its 16 electoral votes.
Trump now has 232 electoral votes while his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton has 209. The Democrats had some hopes that changing demographics in Georgia could allow then to flip the reliably Republican state but their efforts fell short.
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Donald Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton in the state of Iowa inching closer to winning the White House in a shock upset, television networks projected.
The midwestern US state has six Electoral College votes, moving the Manhattan property mogul closer to the total of 270 needed to claim the US presidency.
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Republican Lt. Gov. Phil Scott has won election as governor of Vermont. He defeated Democrat Sue Minter.
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Kate Brown has been re-elected governor of Oregon over Republican newcomer Bud Pierce.
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Donald Trump wins Utah. The Republican nominee was awarded its six electoral college votes.
He now has 238 electoral votes. His Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton has 209.
Utah is normally one of the safest states on the map for Republicans. But the presence of independent Evan McMullin changed the calculation this year as polls consistently reflected a tight three-way race. Trump also had struggled with Mormons, who are normally reliably Republican voters.
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Democrat Jay Inslee of Washington state wins re-election as governor.
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Republican Eric Greitens elected Missouri governor.
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Hillary Clinton wins Nevada and its six electoral votes. Her victory there in the presidential election brings Clinton's Electoral College total to 215.
Republican Donald Trump has 244 votes. It takes 270 electoral votes to win the presidency.
Clinton's win in Nevada is the first time since the 1940s that the Democrats have carried the state in three consecutive elections.
The winner of the US presidential election has failed to carry Nevada only once.
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Republican Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania re-elected to Senate.
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Republicans will retain control of Senate after win in Pennsylvania if they hold Louisiana, Alaska as expected.
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Donald Trump wins Pennsylvania and its prize of 20 electoral votes.
Trump's stunning victory in the key battleground state gives him 264 electoral votes. Trump's opponent, Hillary Clinton, has 215.
Pennsylvania last voted for a Republican for president in 1988. Trump repeatedly campaigned there, believing his populist message would resonate with the state's working-class voters.
Clinton long viewed the state as a key part of her "firewall" and rallied in Philadelphia with President Barack Obama on Monday night. The Democrats also held their nominating convention in the city.
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Hillary Clinton wins the statewide vote in Maine. Clinton has won one of the state's congressional districts, giving her three electoral votes. Trump has won one district in the state and wins one electoral vote.
Trump also won the remaining congressional district in Nebraska, which gives him another electoral vote.
Clinton now has 218 electoral votes. Her Republican opponent has 266, just four shy of the threshold needed to be elected president.
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Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta says her campaign will have nothing to say tonight about state of race.
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Republican Roy Blunt of Missouri re-elected to Senate.
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Trump wins Wisconsin.
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Hillary Clinton called Donald Trump to concede the election.
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President-elect Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton called him to congratulate him on his victory.
Trump, addressing supporters at his victory party in New York City, said Wednesday that he "congratulated her and her family on a very, very hard-fought campaign."
He added that "we owe her a major debt of gratitude" for her service.
The gracious sentiment was a far cry from Trump's usually heated rhetoric about Clinton. He has suggested that she should go to jail and chants of "Lock her up!" were a staple at his campaign rallies.
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Donald Trump says it's "time for us to come together," pledges to be president "for all Americans.
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PM Narendra Modi congratulated Donald Trump on being elected as US President, said he looks forward to working together to enhance ties.
President Pranab Mukherjee also sent his congratulations to Trump on winning the election.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin also sent Donald Trump a telegram of congratulations on winning the
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"I express my heartfelt congratulations on your election as the next president of the
Turkey's prime minister has called on Donald Trump to extradite a US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen - blamed by Ankara for the failed coup in July - as soon as he is sworn in.
Germany's foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier says the outcome of the US presidential election is "different than most people in Germany would have wanted, but of course we have to respect it."
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Malaysia's prime minister has congratulated Donald Trump on his "extraordinary victory," saying his success showed that politicians should never take voters for granted.
Najib Razak is a possible beneficiary of what could be an inward-looking US under a Trump presidency. He is embroiled in a scandal over the alleged theft by his associates of several billion dollars from a state investment fund. A US Justice Department probe has linked Najib to the embezzlement.
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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who has lashed out at Barack Obama for criticizing his deadly anti-drug crackdown, has congratulated US President-elect Donald Trump.
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Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi congratulated Donald Trump on winning the US presidential election, saying Cairo wants to see more "cooperation and coordination" between the two nations to bolster stability and peace in the Middle East.
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British Prime Minister Theresa May has congratulated US President-elect Donald Trump, saying the two countries will remain "strong and close partners on trade, security and defense."
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Indonesia's president Joko "Jokowi" Widodo says the world's most populous Muslim nation will work with Donald Trump's new US administration.
He says "we will keep good relations, especially in trade and investment as we know the US is one of Indonesia's major investors. I think there will be no change."
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European Union leaders have invited US President-elect Donald Trump to come visit the 28-nation bloc as possible to assess trans-Atlantic ties.
With "sincere congratulations," EU Council President Donald Tusk and his Commission counterpart Jean-Claude Juncker said that, despite Trump's campaign talk of protectionism and isolationism, both sides "should consolidate the bridges we have been building across the Atlantic."
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Cambodia's long-serving authoritarian prime minister Hun Sen has congratulated Donald Trump on his US presidential election victory.
On his official Facebook page, Hun Sen called Trump "your excellency" and pointed out that he'd announced his support for the Republican candidate several days earlier.
He says "American voters have shown their choice to elect your excellency. My support for your candidacy is not wrong either." Hun Sen has kept a tight grip on Cambodian politics for three decades by silencing critics with lawsuits, intimidation and other tactics.
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A top official in South Sudan has welcomed the election victory of Donald Trump. South Sudan's Minister of Information and government spokesman Michael Makuei says Trump "will be better after all" for his nation.
Makeui says "I really doubt President Obama had any clear policy to South Sudan other than to destroy it. So we will definitely expect better relations with Trump ... and the US after the election."
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has offered President-elect Donald Trump "close cooperation" on the basis of shared trans-Atlantic values that she says include respect for human dignity regardless of people's origin, gender or religion.
Merkel told reporters in Berlin on Wednesday that the campaign which ended in Trump's victory featured "confrontations that were difficult to bear."
Merkel stressed Germany's close historical connection with the United States. She said: "Germany and America are connected by values: democracy, freedom, respect for the law and for the dignity of human beings, independently of origin, skin color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or political views."
She added: "On the basis of these values, I am offering the future president of the United States of America, Donald Trump, close cooperation."
She said the partnership with the US "is a foundation stone of German foreign policy."
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The Iraqi government says relations with the United States have a "solid base" and this is not expected to change after Donald Trump's election as president.
Government spokesman Saad al-Hadithi, said on Wednesday that Iraq is keen to develop its relations with the US and "boost cooperation in the fight against terrorism."
He noted the leading US role in the current battle to push back Islamic State extremists in Iraq's north. Last month, a US-led military coalition launched an operation to retake Iraq's second largest city, Mosul, from Islamic State extremists.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is giving a thumbs-up to president-elect Donald Trump's victory.
In a brief statement Wednesday, the Kremlin said Putin has sent Trump a telegram to congratulate him on winning. Putin expressed "his hope to work together for removing Russian-American relations from their crisis state."
Putin also says he has confidence that building a constructive dialogue between Moscow and Washington - one based on principles of equality, mutual respect and a real accounting of each other's positions - is in the interest of both nations and the world.
Trump has drawn criticism for repeatedly praising Putin's leadership and advocating a closer working relationship with Russia despite its record of human rights abuses and recent military incursions in Ukraine and Syria.
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President Barack Obama is congratulating Donald Trump on his victory in becoming the president-elect.
Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway says Obama called Trump early Wednesday while he was speaking to his supporters in New York, and so Trump called him back after he left the stage.
She said the two had what she described as a "very nice talk." She said they would meet possibly on Thursday.
White House press secretary Josh Earnest had told reporters traveling aboard Air Force One last week that the president was leaving his schedule open on Wednesday and Thursday for a possible meeting with the president-elect.
On Tuesday night, Trump said that he had received a call from his opponent, Hillary Clinton. In his remarks to supporters, he praised her for a hard-fought campaign and said Americans owe her a major debt of gratitude for her long service to the country.
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China's President Xi Jinping sent congratulations to US president-elect Donald Trump and said he looked forward to working with him, state broadcaster CCTV reported Wednesday.
"I highly value China-US relations, and look forward to working together with you, and holding fast to mutual respect and non-conflict, non-confrontation," the channel cited Xi as saying in its nightly national broadcast.
Without commenting directly on Donald Trump's election, China's government says Beijing hopes to work with the new U.S. administration to build sustainable ties and expressed confidence the two countries can handle trade disputes maturely.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang told reporters in Beijing on Wednesday that China is "looking forward to making concerted efforts with the new US government to ensure the sustainable, steady and sound development of bilateral relations" to benefit both countries' people and the world.
Asked about US voters' anger about economic losses blamed on Chinese exports, Lu said only that the two countries had established ways to deal with trade disputes. He says "as mature, large countries, China and the US are able to handle such issues."
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Iran's semi-official news agency Tasnim has quoted the country's foreign minister as saying that the United States needs to implement its part of multilateral international commitments under last year's historic nuclear deal.
The comments Wednesday by Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif came after businessman Donald Trump's election as US president.
During the campaign, Trump has criticized the deal and suggested he would try to renegotiate it. Zarif was quoted as saying that any US president "should have a correct understanding of realities of the world and our region and face them realistically."
Zarif says that America has accepted multilateral international commitments and has to "implement the nuclear deal."
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has congratulated Donald Trump, calling him a "true friend of the State of Israel."
Netanyahu said Wednesday he believes the two leaders "will continue to strengthen the unique alliance between our two countries and bring it to ever greater heights."
Earlier, a key ally in Netanyahu's center-right coalition, Education Minister Naftali Bennett, said Tump's victory means that "the era of a Palestinian state is over." The Palestinians want a state in lands Israel captured in 1967.
Netanyahu has said he is willing to negotiate a border deal, but has retracted offers made by his predecessors while pressing ahead with Jewish settlement expansion on war-won land.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday that he hopes "peace will be achieved during his term.
Without commenting directly on Donald Trump's election, China's government says Beijing hopes to work with the new US administration to build sustainable ties and expressed confidence the two countries can handle trade disputes maturely.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang told reporters in Beijing on Wednesday that China is "looking forward to making concerted efforts with the new US government to ensure the sustainable, steady and sound development of bilateral relations" to benefit both countries' people and the world.
Asked about US voters' anger about economic losses blamed on Chinese exports, Lu said only that the two countries had established ways to deal with trade disputes. He says "as mature, large countries, China and the US are able to handle such issues."
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Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow is ready to try to restore good relations with the United States in the wake of the election of Donald Trump.
Putin said Wednesday at a ceremony accepting the credentials of new ambassadors that "we aware that it is a difficult path, in view of the unfortunate degradation of relations between the Russian Federation and the United States."
Putin says "it is not our fault that Russian-American relations are in such a state."
Earlier, the Kremlin said Putin sent Trump a telegram of congratulation, expressing "his hope to work together for removing Russian-American relations from their crisis state."
Putin also says ties between Moscow and Washington must be "based on principles of equality, mutual respect and a real accounting each other's positions."
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Italy's premier has offered his congratulations to Donald Trump, brushing aside political differences, following his repeated public endorsements of Hillary Clinton.
Premier Matteo Renzi says Wednesday "in the name of Italy, I congratulate the president of the United States and wish him well in his work, convinced that the Italian-American friendship remains strong and solid."
Renzi faces his own political reckoning next month with a constitutional referendum that has mobilized opposition as well as party dissidents against him. A no vote is likely to force at least a government shuffling in Italy, if not new elections.
Renzi was in Washington last month for a state visit with President Barack Obama.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he hopes Donald Trump's election as president marks a new era in the United States that he hopes will lead to "beneficial" steps for fundamental rights, liberties and democracy in the world.
Addressing a business group in Istanbul on Wednesday, Erdogan also said he hopes the election result would also be auspicious for the region.
Erdogan said: "Personally and on behalf of the nation, I wish to consider this decision by the American people a positive sign and wish them a successful future."
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A spokesman for the Polish president says Poland cares a lot whether U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will implement NATO decisions to deploy military deterrence forces in Poland and the Baltic states.
Marek Magierowski says on state Radio 1 Wednesday that it is a priority for Poland to see the implementation of NATO decision to base for battalions in the region, including a U.S. armored brigade to be stationed in Poland, and also the construction of a U.S. missile defense base.
The region is concerned for its security amid Russia's rising military assertiveness.
Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz says he expects ties to be even better under Trump as president.
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Environmentalists and climate scientists are alarmed over the election of a U.S. president who has called global warming a "hoax."
Donald Trump's win has raised questions about whether America, once again, would pull out of an international climate deal. Many said it's now up to the rest of the world to lead efforts to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, while others held out hope that Trump would change his stance on climate change and honor U.S. commitments under last year's landmark Paris Agreement.
Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine says Wednesday that as "the realities of leadership settle in, I expect he will realize that climate change is a threat to his people and to whole countries which share seas with the U.S."
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Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says his country will work "as closely as ever" with the United States under Donald Trump's new administration.
He says "politicians and governments, congressmen, senators, prime ministers, presidents come and go according to the will of the people of Australia and the United States, but the bond between our two nations, our shared common interests, our shared national interests are so strong, are so committed that we will continue to work with our friends in the United States."
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French President Francois Hollande says the election of Donald Trump "opens a period of uncertainty. It must be faced with lucidity and clarity."
In brief remarks after the weekly Cabinet meeting, Hollande congratulated Trump "as is natural between two heads of state," but showed little enthusiasm. Hollande had openly endorsed Hillary Clinton and said Wednesday he was thinking of her.
Hollande said "certain positions taken by Donald Trump during the American campaign must be confronted with the values and interests we share with the United States."
He says "what is at stake is peace, the fight against terrorism, the situation in the Middle East. It is economic relations and the preservation of the planet."
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The Taliban have called on Donald Trump to withdraw all U.S. forces from Afghanistan once he takes office as president.
In a statement sent to The Associated Press, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said Wednesday that a Trump administration "should allow Afghans to become a free nation and have relationships with other countries based on non-interference in each other's affairs."
The Afghan conflict is in its 16th year. The Taliban have spread their footprint across Afghanistan in the two years since most international combat troops withdrew.
President Barack Obama expanded U.S. troops' mandate to enable them to work more closely on the battlefield with their Afghan counterparts, and to conduct counter-terrorism operations against Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State group and the Taliban.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping has conveyed his congratulations to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, saying he looked forward to working with Trump on promoting ties in a "constructive" way that avoids conflict and confrontation.
During his campaign, Trump accused China of illegally subsidizing exports, manipulating its currency and stealing intellectual property.
State broadcaster CCTV reported Wednesday that Xi said the two biggest economies in the world shared common interests and shouldered a "special and important responsibility in upholding world peace."
Xi says: "I highly value China-U.S. relations and am looking forward to working with you to expand cooperation in all fields, including in bilateral, regional and global aspects." He says he expects they would "manage differences in a constructive way, in the spirit of non-conflict, non-confrontation, mutual respect, cooperation and win-win."
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Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has sent a message of congratulations to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, saying "the American people have spoken, and they have spoken clearly."
Kenyatta says Wednesday that "the ties that bind Kenya and the United States of America are close and strong. They are old, and based in the values that we hold dear: in democracy, in the rule of law, and in the equality of peoples."
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The president of Slovenia - small Alpine nation that is the home country of future U.S. First Lady Melania Trump - says he hopes relations with the U.S. will further improve during Donald Trump's presidency.
President Boris Pahor says Wednesday "we are allied as part of NATO and I will strive for the friendship and the alliance to deepen further."
Pahor also says "American people have the right to decide on their leader." Prime Minister Miro Cerar has also congratulated the Trumps in a Twitter message.
Melania Trump was born as Melanija Knavs in the industrial Slovenian town of Sevnica before working internationally as a model.
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The Vatican's first reaction to the election of Donald Trump has focused on its wish for global peace.
Pope Francis pope did not mention the U.S. elections during his Wednesday audience, but secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, offered Trump congratulations in a statement to Vatican Radio that "his government can be truly fruitful."
He added the Vatican offered its prayers "that the Lord illuminates and sustains him in service of his country, naturally, but also in service of the well-being and peace of the world."
Parolin concluded by noting that "there is need for everyone to work to change the global situation, which is in a situation of severe lacerations and great conflict."
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Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway says Hillary Clinton had more money and more people on the ground - but, Team Trump "outworked them, and frankly, we outsmarted and outclassed them in some cases."
Conway appeared on Fox News on Wednesday to analyze Donald Trump's stunning defeat of Clinton. Conway said the Republican billionaire "did a great job sealing the deal."
She said: "Take it to the bank - candidates matter. There's no substitute for a great candidate."
On CNN, Conway urged Trump's critics to "lay down their verbal firearms."
She said: "Give him a chance as your president-elect like we all did with President Obama and we all did with President Bill Clinton."
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Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif congratulated Donald Trump on being elected as
the US President, saying he looks forward to working with him closely as strong bilateral ties is critical for regional peace and security.
"On behalf of the government and people of Pakistan, and on my own behalf, I wish to extend to you and the people of the US, our most sincere felicitations on your election as the 45th President of the US," Sharif said in his message.
"Your election is indeed the triumph of the American people and their enduring faith in the ideals of democracy, freedom, human rights and free enterprise. Most importantly, your momentous success is a testimony to the confidence that the people of the US have reposed in your leadership, vision and commitment to serve your great country," he said.
Sharif expressed desire to expand relations with the US under Trump.
"I wish to re-affirm my government's commitment to further strengthening and deepening our relations, in a manner truly reflective of the aspirations of our two nations. I am looking forward to closely working with you, to bring our two countries closer and making our partnership an important vehicle for the realisation of peace, security and prosperity in the region and beyond," he said.
