Clinton calls and concedes as Trump takes the stage
Hillary Clinton has called Donald Trump to concede the election, according to NBC.
Not long before that, shortly after 2 a.m. ET on Wednesday, November 9, 2016, Hillary Clinton's campaign chair John Podesta took to the stage at New York City's Javits Center and said the world wouldn't be hearing from Hillary Clinton on Tuesday night.
"We can wait a little longer, can't we?" Podesta asked the thousands on hand. "They're still counting votes and every vote should count. Several states are too close to call, so we're not going to have any more to say tonight."
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Podesta added, "We'll have more to say tomorrow."
The last time a presidential candidate waited until the day after the election to concede was in 2004, when John Kerry, the Democratic nominee, conceded the race around noon on Wednesday, November 3, 2004.
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Marcus Gilmer is Mashable's Assistant Real-Times News Editor on the West Coast, reporting on breaking news from his location in San Francisco. An Alabama native, Marcus earned his BA from Birmingham-Southern College and his MFA in Communications from the University of New Orleans. Marcus has previously worked for Chicagoist, The A.V. Club, the Chicago Sun-Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.
