“Go home and get some sleep,” John Podesta said, in a positive tone that nobody bought. “They’re still counting votes.”Mr Trump took Wisconsin soon after, securing his victory. Mrs Clinton called him to concede. When Barack Obama beat her to the Democratic nomination eight years ago, Mrs Clinton acknowledged her failure “to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling”. After seeing off Bernie Sanders in July, she told her party that it had “just put the biggest crack in that glass ceiling yet”.

Source: The Times November 09, 2016 12:00 UTC