Obama invites Trump to White House

Obama spoke just moments after Hillary Clinton formally conceded to Trump with a similar, though more emotional, appeal to give Trump a chance to succeed as president.

The two shook hands for the cameras, but did not take questions from reporters.

In Washington, Mr Trump’s transition team sprang into action, looking through personnel lists for senior jobs and working through handover plans for government agencies. Obama met with Trump in the Oval Office to talk presidential transition as the Cavaliers were getting a tour, then Obama greeted the National Basketball Association champions on the South Lawn about two hours later.

With nearly 125 million votes counted, The Associated Press tally had Mrs Clinton with 47.7% and Mr Trump with 47.5%.

Republican pollster Whit Ayres suggests that many observers – himself included – assumed that since Trump had never held a lead, he wouldn’t get the benefit of the doubt from voters in the end. Domestic issues were being handled by Ken Blackwell, a former Cincinnati mayor and OH secretary of state.

Hillary Clinton will be speaking to her supporters Wednesday morning.

House Speaker Paul Ryan said Donald Trump’s victory has turned politics on its head, and that he expects the new president to work hand-in-hand with the Republican-led Congress.

“He just earned a mandate”, Ryan declared.

Trump acknowledged earlier this year that Obama was born in the United States.

Clinton was expected to speak at 9:30 a.m., but the event was pushed back to 10:30 a.m and then 11:30 a.m.

“The Prime Minister said that we have a long history of shared values and added that she looked forward to that continuing in the future”.

Throughout Obama’s presidency, Trump persistently sought to undermine the legitimacy of the nation’s first African-American presidency by questioning his citizenship and his Christian faith.

With her onstage are husband Bill Clinton and daughter Chelsea Clinton. With nearly 125 million votes counted, The Associated Press tally had Clinton with 47.7 percent and Trump with 47.5 percent.

“Donald Trump is going to be our president”.

Trump’s support skewed older, male and overwhelmingly white. “To know that 50,000,000 people in this country felt that it was okay to elect that kind of person, with the things that he said and they way he treated people throughout the whole election, is upsetting”. He called for repealing and replacing the president’s health care law, voiding the Iran nuclear deal and ripping up new business and environmental regulations.

In claiming the presidency during the wee hours of Wednesday, the incoming Republican president did not mention his most criticized proposals, including calls to rework trade deals and his pledge to build a wall along the U.S. -Mexico border.

It’s not clear exactly how Trump and GOP allies would go about it.

A third person said conservative media executive Steve Bannon was also in the mix, though others insisted Bannon would not have a White House role.

Every president and president-elect in recent memory has traveled with a pool of journalists when leaving the White House grounds.

Issues of transparency bubbled up right from the start.

Trump, who spent much of the campaign urging his supporters on as they chanted “lock her up”, said the nation owed Clinton “a major debt of gratitude” for her years of public service.

Global markets already began tumbling late Tuesday. The hotel Trump recently opened on Pennsylvania Avenue was also in sight. The replacement would have increased the number of uninsured by about 22 million, according to nonpartisan analysts. He said the USA has a tendency to “zig and zag” rather than move in a straight line, and he added, “That’s OK”.

As president-elect, Trump is entitled to the same daily intelligence briefing as Obama – including information on USA covert operations, information gleaned about world leaders and other data gathered by America’s 17 intelligence agencies. Trump praised Putin throughout the campaign and advocated a closer relationship with Russian Federation, despite Moscow’s provocations in Ukraine and elsewhere.