Anti-Trump protests Across the US, Americans say ''not my president'' Protests against Donald Trump''s victory took hold across the US with some of them turning violent. Thousands of protesters around the country took to the streets on Wednesday to condemn the election of Donald Trump as president.The demonstrations were mostly peaceful, authorities said.
In Chicago, several thousand people marched through the Loop and gathered outside Trump Tower, chanting “Not my president!”
Chicago resident Michael Burke said he believes the president-elect will “divide the country and stir up hatred”. He added there was a constitutional duty not to accept that.
A similar protest in Manhattan drew about 1 000 people. Outside Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in midtown, police installed barricades to keep the demonstrators at bay. Hundreds of protesters gathered near Philadelphia''s City Hall despite chilly, wet weather. Participants – who included both supporters of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who lost to Clinton in the primary – expressed anger at both Republicans and Democrats over the election''s outcome.
''Impeach Trump
In Boston, thousands of anti-Donald Trump protesters streamed through downtown, chanting “Trump''s a racist” and carrying signs that said “Impeach Trump” and “Abolish Electoral College”.
The protesters gathered on Boston Common before marching toward the Massachusetts Statehouse, with beefed-up security including extra police officers.
Hundreds of University of Texas students spilled out of classrooms to march through downtown Austin. They marched along streets near the Texas Capitol, then briefly blocked a crowded traffic bridge.
Marchers protesting Donald Trump''s election as president chanted and carried signs in front of the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC.
Local media outlets broadcast video on Wednesday night showing a peaceful crowd in front of the new downtown hotel. Many chanted “No racist USA, no Trump, no KKK.”
Another group stood outside the White House. They held candles, listened to speeches and sang songs.
Earlier on Wednesday, protesters at American University burned US flags on campus.
Trump supporter hit
In Oregon, dozens of people blocked traffic in downtown Portland, burned American flags and forced a delay for trains on two light-rail lines.
Earlier, the protest in downtown drew several Trump supporters, who taunted the demonstrators with signs. At one point, a lone Trump supporter was chased across Pioneer Courthouse Square and hit in the back with a skateboard before others intervened.
Protests also were reported at a number of universities in California and Connecticut, while several hundred people marched in San Francisco and others gathered outside City Hall in Los Angeles.
The only major violence was reported in Oakland, California, during a protest that began shortly before midnight and lasted into early Wednesday morning.
Some demonstrators set garbage bins on fire, broke windows and sprayed graffiti at five businesses in the downtown area, police said. No arrests were made.
Another protest began on Wednesday evening downtown, with several hundred chanting, sign-waving people gathering in Frank Ogawa Plaza.
In San Francisco, hundreds are marching along Market Avenue, one of the city''s main avenues, to join a vigil in the Castro District, a predominantly gay neighbourhood.
Female vote
In the meanwhile, despite sex assault allegations hounding him, fat-shaming a former beauty queen and his controversial abortion stand, a large number of women voters helped put Donald Trump in the White House.
Though his rival, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, clinched 54% of the female vote, Trump was backed by 42% of women voters, which contributed to his stunning victory, according to CNN exit polls.
Some 53% of white women voters supported the Republican candidate, CNN said, the majority of them (62%) non-college educated.
The results upended predictions that sexist and degrading comments Trump made against women would sway female voters - who accounted for about 52% of the electorate on Tuesday - in favour of a candidate that could have broken the glass ceiling.
Experts said the outcome is not surprising, and reflects an election in which issues about the economy, jobs and immigration were much higher on all voters'' priority list than gender issues.
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