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8A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2016 ‘Things will change. I know he’s not going to be perfect. But he’s got a heart. And he gives people hope.’ Doug Ratliff a 67-year-old businessman from Richlands, Virginia Outsider Trump wins stunning victory to become next president Will govern with a GOP Congress With 97’s defeat, deficit looms By JULIE PACE AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON — A day after Donald Trump, against all odds, won election as America’s 45th president, Hillary Clinton today said the nation proved to be “more divided than we thought” but urged unity and told her supporters, “We owe him an open mind and a chance to lead.” Standing before a crowd of crest- fallen but cheering supporters, she said, “This is painful and it will be for a long time.” Trump’s triumph over Clinton, not declared until well after mid- night, will end eight years of Dem- ocratic 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 Clin- ton. He faces fractures within his own party, too, given the numer- ous Republicans who either tepidly supported his nomination or never backed him at all. As he claimed victory early today, Trump urged Americans to “come together as one united people.” That sentiment was echoed by the GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan, who had been a reluctant Trump supporter. “This needs to be a time of redemption, not a time of recrimi- nation,” Ryan said in a news confer- ence. He also said Trump had earned a “mandate” to enact his agenda. “We have to do a great job, and I promise you that I will not let you down,” he said this morning. Clinton, who had hoped to become the first woman to be elected president, called her Republican rival to concede but did not plan to speak publicly until this morn- ing. She was leading the nationwide popular vote. Though some states were still counting ballots. Global stock markets and U.S. stock futures plunged early today, but later recovered, reflecting inves- tor concern over what a Trump pres- idency might mean. The Dow Jones industrial average was flat after trad- ing opened today. President Barack Obama called Trump to congratulate him and invited the Republican to a meeting at the White House Thursday to dis- cuss transition. Obama also called Clinton to convey his admiration for the “strong campaign she waged throughout the country,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said. Obama planned a televised state- ment today on “what steps we can take as a country to come together after this hard-fought election sea- son,” the White House said. 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. Trump campaign Legislature must address sizable revenue shortfall AP Photo/ Evan Vucci Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump cheer as they watch election returns during an election night rally Tuesday in New York. AP Photo/ Evan Vucci AP Photo/Craig Ruttle Marci Morimoto of New York, center, embraces James Armstrong of New York outside the Jacob Javits Center during a rally for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in New York early this morning. manager Kellyanne Conway said Obama and Trump had “a very nice talk” when the president called him. The Republican blasted through Democratic strongholds of Penn- sylvania and Wisconsin, states that hadn’t voted for a GOP presiden- tial candidate since the 1980s. He needed to win nearly all of the com- petitive battleground states, and he did just that, including Florida, Ohio, North Carolina and others. A New York real estate developer who lives in a sparkling Manhat- tan high-rise, Trump forged a strik- ing connection with white, work- ing class Americans who feel left behind in a changing economy and diversifying country. He cast immi- gration, both from Latin America and the Middle East, as the root of problems plaguing many Americans and tapped into fears of terrorism emanating at home and abroad. GOP Senate candidates fended off Democratic challengers in key states, including North Carolina, Indiana and Wisconsin. Republi- cans also maintained their grip on the House. Senate control means Trump will have great leeway in appoint- ing Supreme Court justices, which could shift the bench to the right for decades. Trump has pledged to usher in sweeping changes to U.S. foreign policy, including building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and suspending immigration from coun- tries with terrorism ties. He has praised Russian President Vladimir Putin and spoken of building a better relationship with Moscow, worrying some in his own party who fear he’ll go easy on Putin’s provocations. Putin sent him a telegram of congratulations. Trump upended years of political convention on his way to the White House, leveling harshly personal insults against his rivals, deeming Mexican immigrants rapists and murderers, and vowing to temporar- ily suspend Muslim immigration to the U.S. He never released his tax returns, breaking with decades of campaign tradition, and eschewed the kind of robust data and field efforts that helped Obama win two terms in the White House, relying instead on his large, free-wheeling President-elect Donald Trump smiles as he arrives to speak at an election night rally early this morning in New York. rallies to energize supporters. His campaign was frequently in chaos, and he cycled through three cam- paign managers. Conway, his final campaign manager, touted the team’s accom- plishments as the final results rolled in, writing on Twitter that “rally crowds matter” and “we expanded the map.” Clinton faced persistent ques- tions about her honesty and trust- worthiness. Those troubles flared anew late in the race, when FBI Director James Comey announced a review of new emails from her ten- ure at the State Department. Just two days before Election Day, Comey said there was nothing in the mate- rial to warrant criminal charges against Clinton. Trump will inherit an anxious nation, deeply divided by economic and educational opportunities, race and culture. Exit polls underscored the frac- tures: Women nationwide supported Clinton by a double-digit margin, while men were significantly more likely to back Trump. More than half of white voters backed the Republi- can, while nearly 9 in 10 blacks and two-thirds of Hispanics voted for the Democrat. Brown faces $1.4 billion deficit, other issues By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau After winning her first elected term, Gov. Kate Brown faces a challenging two years in which she will have to address an estimated $1.4 billion revenue shortfall and pressure to pass a transportation package. While voters sent Brown back to the Governor’s Office with 51 percent support as of late Tuesday night, they defeated a $6 billion cor- porate sales tax measure that would have paid for both of those costs. Pierce received 43 percent of the vote. Brown endorsed Measure 97, which would have levied a 2.5 per- cent tax on certain corporations’ Oregon sales exceeding $25 million. In her speech Tuesday, she didn’t address how she plans to address the revenue shortfall, and her spokes- man did not respond to a message Tuesday seeking more details on her post-Measure 97 plan. Other lawmakers said Tuesday they plan Pamplin Media Group Rebecca Tweed, head of the anti-Measure 97 campaign, said a large coalition of consumers and businesses helped defeat the corporate tax proposal. Pamplin Media Group Gov. Kate Brown addresses supporters after her win Tuesday. to propose a more “reasonable” rev- enue package in 2017. Brown will have a Democratic majority in the House and Senate, which likely will make a potential revenue package easier to attain. “I am so honored to be serving as your governor for the next two years, Brown told a crowd at the Oregon Convention Center Tues- day. “Thank you so very much. I will fight to make sure that our schools open the doors of oppor- tunity for all of our students, I will fight to make sure our economy grows in every single corner of the state, and I will fight to preserve the bounty of Oregon for generations to come.” As former secretary of state, Brown was next in line to the Gov- ernor’s Office when Gov. John Kitzhaber resigned in Febru- ary 2015 over an influence-ped- dling scandal. She and Pierce, a Salem physician and political nov- ice, sought to complete the last two years of Kitzhaber’s four-year term. Brown will be eligible to run for another term in 2018. Her first initiative as governor — to pass a $343.5 million trans- portation package in 2015 — failed to gain momentum after the Depart- ment of Transportation provided faulty numbers on some of the proj- ects. Brown pushed back the trans- portation package to 2017. A leg- islative group continues to look at potential packages for next ses- sion, which likely would involve an increase in the gas tax. The Capital Bureau is a collab- oration between EO Media Group and Pamplin Media Group. By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau PORTLAND — After vot- ers defeated Measure 97 Tues- day, the battle over increasing taxes on corporations is likely to rage on in the Oregon Legis- lature in 2017. Lawmakers plan to propose a more “reasonable” tax reve- nue proposal next session to off- set a $1.4 billion revenue short- fall in the 2017-18 budget, said Sen. Mark Hass, D-Beaverton. “I think policy will be devel- oped by lawmakers and inter- ested parties at the next ses- sion,” said Rebecca Tweed, Defeat the Tax on Oregon Sales campaign coordinator. “Our coalition came together for the purpose of defeating this $6 billion tax on sales, and we’re thankful we were able to do that.” Proponents of Measure 97 vowed to lobby lawmak- ers to make large corporations pay a larger share of Oregon’s tax revenue and protect invest- ments in education and health care, which the measure was intended to support. “We are going to keep fight- ing,” said Ben Unger, campaign manager for Yes on 97. The campaign was sched- uled to release details of its next steps at a news confer- ence Wednesday, Nov. 9. Unger declined to comment Tuesday on whether the public employee union-backed Our Oregon would attempt another ballot measure in 2018. Measure 97 failed Tuesday 58 percent to 41 percent. The measure would have levied a 2.5 percent tax on certain cor- porations’ Oregon sales exceed- ing $25 million per year. A coalition of businesses raised a record-breaking $26.5 million to thwart the measure. Proponents raised about $17.7 million. The ballot measure was the most expensive in the state’s history. “Voters didn’t buy claims that the $6 billion tax, based on business sales instead of prof- its, would not increase con- sumer costs,” Tweed said. “And they understood that the money raised could have been used any way legislators wanted to spend it.” The opposition’s blast of advertising on television, radio and social media drove home projections by the nonpartisan Legislative Revenue Office that consumers ultimately would pay for much of the measure in the form of higher prices. The office estimated that the typical family would pay about $600 more per year under Measure 97. Unger said Tuesday his only regret during the campaign was that Yes on 97 failed to raise as much money as the opposition. He said he believed his cam- paign’s message resonated with voters. “We didn’t win this election this time, but we did win the debate,” Unger said. “Because of the work we did, no one is going to accept a proposed school cut or more expen- sive health care before ask- ing instead of cuts, why not make corporations pay their fair share?”
