{"id":46218,"date":"2016-11-10T14:09:43","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T20:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=46218"},"modified":"2016-11-11T14:07:16","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T20:07:16","slug":"clintons-defeat-brings-remorse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/clintons-defeat-brings-remorse\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinton’s defeat brings remorse"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Christen Gall<\/strong><\/p>\n

Excitement shifted to somberness late in the evening at the campaign watch party for Hillary Clinton as it became clear in that Donald Trump will be the nation\u2019s next president.<\/p>\n

And the mood has prevailed.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo all the women, and especially the young women who put their faith in this campaign and in me, I want you to know that nothing that has made me prouder than to be your champion,\u201d said Clinton the following day in New York in front of media and her supporters.<\/p>\n

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Hours after Clinton\u2019s concession speech, protests began near\u00a0 Trump tower on Michigan Ave. as thousands of Chicago residents gathered to protest his election. Their protests were matched by similar outbursts across major cities.<\/p>\n

Catherine Sneed, a resident of Logan Square, came out to protest, holding up a sign saying, \u201cI feel personally kicked in the pussy.\u201d She referred to a video that captured Trump using lewd terms to describe his actions towards women.<\/p>\n

Watching the election results come in the night before, Sneed recalled feeling as if it was a \u201csurreal\u201d event.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe literary elected a bully and put him in office,\u201d said Sneed. \u201cAnd I think that\u2019s terrible. That reflects badly on us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sneed said she\u2019s worried for her friends of various sexual orientations and of different faiths. She\u2019s also concerned about Trump\u2019s comments about women throughout the campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a woman, I am always terrified that someone is going to do something,\u201d said Sneed. \u201cI\u2019ve been cat-called. I\u2019ve been followed. But now that we\u2019ve elected someone who thinks that that\u2019s okay, I\u2019m even more terrified.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Chicago, just blocks away from her Michigan Ave. headquarters, Clinton\u2019s Chicago staff hosted a watch party at Moe\u2019s Cantina on 155 W. Kinzie St. on Tuesday evening. There, guests such as newly elected Cook County State\u2019s Attorney Kim Foxx, spoke about the need for change in the justice system in Cook County.<\/p>\n

In the swanky River North restaurant, a racially diverse group of both women and men were\u00a0 hopeful early on in the night. Clinton\/ Kaine buttons covered the tabletops and a cutout of Hillary Clinton stood in the back for attenders to take photos with throughout the evening.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe in breaking the glass ceiling,\u201d said Norma Williams, a 68-year-old business-owner in Chicago. \u201cAnd I believe that it\u2019s time. It\u2019s just time for a female president.\u201d<\/p>\n

In her concession speech, Clinton had talked about her failed effort to crack the nation’s highest glass ceiling. “I know we have still not shattered that highest and hardest glass ceiling, but some day someone will and hopefully sooner than we might think right now.”<\/p>\n

Williams said that she\u2019s always supported Clinton, calling her a strong candidate that \u201cknows how to leap over buildings in a single bounce.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s a damn good leader,\u201d said Williams. \u201cAll the way from back in the day, before she got married. She fought for what she believed in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pete Steinau, wearing a baseball cap and suspenders with a Hillary Clinton and Tammy Duckworth pin on each shoulder, could have easily been mistaken for a stereotypical Trump supporter. But the casually dressed elderly Clinton supporter always votes for Democrats, saying he\u2019s a recovering Bernie fan.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m here to cheer on the next president of the United States, of course Hillary Clinton, and all the strong women that are running nationally and in Illinois and in Chicago,\u201d said Steinau.<\/p>\n

The mood shifted from cheers to anxious stares as supporters watched results come in from key swing states like North Carolina and Florida. Then the room turned quiet with only CNN newscasters as audible sounds in the background.<\/p>\n

Stephanie Hernandez, a Chicago school principal who lives in University Village, grew worried as the watch party went on.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is incredibly personal to me,\u201d said Hernandez. \u201cAs a Latino person of Mexican descent, when I hear the rhetoric around immigration, I think of my own family.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hernandez thought Clinton would win by a landslide, and as a Florida native she\u00a0 wasn\u2019t surprised that the state went for Trump, pointing to conservative Latino voters in the region. As a principal she was thinking about how the choice of candidate would impact her students.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think about what this could mean to students of color and how they see their place in our country,\u201d said Hernandez. \u201cThat\u2019s very concerning to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hernandez also expressed her fears for the United States after Trump becomes president.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat does this mean for our country? What does this mean for diversity? What does this mean for immigration?\u201d said Hernandez. \u201cWhat does that say about our future?\u201d<\/p>\n

PHOTO AT TOP: A woman at the Hillary Clinton watch party in downtown Chicago watches election results come in during the evening on Nov. 8, 2016. (Christen Gall\/ MEDILL)<\/div>\n

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