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Donald Trumps victory over Hillary Clinton came as a surprise to many people, but if the media had done its job, it probably wouldnt have.

According to NBCs Chuck Todd, the media knew what was happening in rural America all alongbut instead of covering their feelings toward the Clintons, they chose to ignore it for fear of being seen as sexist.

Where I think political correctness got in the way of what we all knew as reporters and didnt fully deliver was how hated the Clintons were in the heartland, he told former Bush White House press secretary Ari Fleischer in an interview for the 1947podcast.

And I think it was a fear of, Oh, is it going to look like its sexist, anti-woman if we say that? he continued, noting how many Hillary for Prison signs he saw in the yards of rural America.

I think we underplayed it a little bit out of political correctness fears,he said. No member of the press corps wants to look like theyre singling out a group and making a group feel bad, right, whatever that [group] is.

If we sort of were straight-up honest and blunt about hey do we understand the level of hatred thats out there and you know, all the Hillary for Prison signs that are out there, we certainly would have at least made the viewer know, hey, you know, shes not well-liked in some places in this country in ways thats times 10 when it comes to Trump, he said.

Todd went on to say there was a coastal bias in story selection for the 2016 election cycle.

What do I think we did wrong in this election? The biggest thing is we didnt tell the stories of all Americans, he admitted. We told the stories of coastal Americans. And ultimately, thats like the larger trust issue.

We were more likely to do a story about the Dreamer that might get deported with new policies than we were about the 19-year-old opioid addict who feels hopeless in Rolla, Missouri. And, Im not, I dont pick on Rolla, Missouri, its, my point is that we just, we did not equally tell those stories very well, right, and, we were not, that is an out-of-touch issue.

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I and millions of voters in the last election would like to honor Mrs. Hillary Clinton by giving her the well-deserved honorary title of Madame President of the People.

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A.P. Valdez, Corpus Christi, Letter to the Editor 3:00 p.m. CT Jan. 29, 2017

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 20: Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton arrives on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2017 in Washington, DC. In today's inauguration ceremony Donald J. Trump becomes the 45th president of the United States. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)(Photo: Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images)

I and millions of voters in the last election would like to honor Mrs. Hillary Clinton by giving her the well-deserved honorary title of Madame President of the People. Yes, the other candidate, because of the Electoral College, became the president but as is known he did not win the popular vote. Mrs. Clinton did so and very mightily.

There were many forces working hard to hurt Mrs. Clinton's candidacy, investigation after investigation from the other major political party, the unprecedented behavior of our own Federal Bureau of Investigation and from Russian sources apparently wanting to meddle into our democratic process and influence our election. She faced numerous vicious, rabid-dog attacks from her opponent and his supporters, exaggerated claims, fake stories and outright lies about her. Mrs. Clinton, although not a perfect candidate, is an intelligent, caring, decent and good person, as even her opponent has admitted.

I and her supporters want to thank Mrs. Clinton for all the good work she has already done for most of her life and for her desire to work for children, women and families. I have no doubt she would make a fine president of this United States. And I pray that she stays strong and tries again and again, in any capacity or position, to carry forth those great ideas she is highly capable of accomplishing. This country, its people and yes, the world, would surely benefit.

Congratulations, Mrs. Clinton! You are a winner and will always be a winner. God bless you and your family.

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A new analysis of voting data suggests that Hillary Clinton may have received as many as 800,000 votes from non-citizens -- but the author behind the study has become frustrated with President Donald Trump and others for misinterpreting his data.

Jesse Richman, an associate professor at Old Dominion University, has revisited a 2014 report he published exploring voting by non-citizens and extrapolated his data to find that assuming "the highest rate of noncitizen voting" and "that 80 percent voted for Clinton" would have added around 800,000 votes to her total.

"Is it plausible that non-citizen votes added to Clinton's margin? Yes," Richman said. "Is it plausible that non-citizen votes account for the entire nation-wide popular vote margin held by Clinton? Not at all."

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Richman wants the Trump Administration to stop misquoting his work. He spoke to WTKR, and pointed out that his more realistic estimate puts the number of non-citizen votes closer to 100,000.

Additionally, many questions have been raised about the data Richman relied upon to make his conclusions, which came from a survey in which some self-identified non=citizens said they voted.

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Did the phony, hypocritical liberal celebrities who made fools of themselves during the 2016 campaign not get the memo? I am specifically referring to all the useful post-election analysis that should have clued them in to how little their opinions mattered in the political realm, and what their utility might be in the future. Even back in 2014, a CBS News poll showed that 61 percent of Americans thought Hollywood had too much influence on American politics and social values.

To remind everyone, celebrities from Beyonce to Leonardo DiCaprio to Katy Perry appeared at Hillary Clinton rallies, held concerts in support of Clinton and produced what they obviously thought were really cute, funny videos trying to get people to vote for Clinton. But, as Maureen Callahan so succinctly wrote in a smart piece for the New York Posts Page Six titled Why celebrity endorsements didn't help Hillary at all, Those who have money, fame, privilege and status and have no cause to worry and fail to do so can only further divide the country and alienate those who, rightly, feel unseen, unheard and looked down upon. And, Callahan wrote, after Clinton lost, those celebrities who reacted publicly often did so with a pungent brew of self-pity, condescension and didacticism. Sarah Jones, writing in the New Republic, may have said it best: Clinton's campaign employed a candy-colored brand of female empowerment seemingly based on the assumption that white women's political priorities are influenced by the pop culture they consume.

Anyway, the wasted efforts of celebrities gave us such memorable performances as Lena Dunham's cringe-worthy Sensual Pantsuit video and Jay-Z's big concert, aimed at mobilizing the young African-American community in the swing state of Ohio. After Clinton lost the election, there was much weeping and gnashing of teeth, and the celebrities who had vowed to leave the country if Donald Trump won came down with the requisite amnesia. Unfortunately, they were not also struck dumb.

Rather than learn their lesson, it appears that the self-centered and tone-deaf celebrities who were supposed to know something about the American zeitgeist and appealing to their audiences have doubled down, engaging in more self-righteous rhetoric and overblown, fashionable-on-the-left social media freak-outs about Trump's inauguration. Maybe I shouldn't have expected any self-reflection or understanding of the post-election analysis, since I don't think of many of them as being particularly politically literate or as being avid readers, especially not when the news is critical or questions their own public appeal.

And the whining, panic and tantrums have only amplified since November. In the last week alone, we've seen theatrical outbursts from celebrities that remind those who voted for Trump exactly what they don't like about celebrities gratuitously inserting themselves into their political decision-making. Kate Rich, a B-list wannabe from Saturday Night Live, took a stand by writing a tweet picking on Trump's 10-year-old son. During the extremely vulgar and militant women's march in Washington, no less than washed-up singer Madonna mused about blowing up the White House. When will she relieve us of having to witness her now more than a decade-long, I swear I'm still relevant tour? Don't even get me started on Ashley Judd's delusional rant at that same protest march. And finally, we have Chelsea Handler, the self-absorbed, unfunny, tries-too-hard comedian who says she's too good to interview Melania Trump and makes fun of the first lady's accent. Really? I suspect the Trumps haven't lost any sleep over the fact that they will not be appearing on Handler's show. I didn't know she still had a show until I read about her refusal to grant the first family the privilege of appearing on it. It's pathetic.

Everybody has a right to his or her own opinion and everybody has a right to speak out, blah blah blah. But in the case of American celebrities, they should start asking themselves whether or not it is wise for them to do so. The answer should be clear, but the fact that they don't get it and won't accept Trump as president says a lot about who they really are and what they really know.

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Ed Rogers is a veteran Republican strategist and chairman of the lobbying and communications firm BGR Group.

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They say history repeats itself, but what they don't tell you is that sometimes it doesn't take very long. President Trump and his closest staffers are seemingly making the exact same missteps as Hillary Clinton. Here's a look. Jeva Lange

The private email server

Hillary Clinton famously used a private email server while serving as secretary of state, an act Trump once claimed "disqualifies her from seeking presidency." But Trump's senior White House staff use a private Republican National Committee server, Newsweek reports. This isn't explicitly illegal but it's led to some scrutiny in the past, such as when 22 million emails vanished under former President George W. Bush, or when the Russians possibly compromised the RNC server at the same time as their hack on the Democratic National Committee. Any emails that aren't forwarded from the private server to a White House address are also in violation of the Presidential Records Act. "Given how hard the Trump campaign hammered Clinton [on] her own use of a private email server during her tenure [...] this is not a good look," Engadget writes.

The personal email account

While government officials have not always used .gov accounts, Clinton's usage was ruled as "more serious" in 2016. "The audit did note that former Secretary of State Colin Powell had also exclusively used a private email account. ... But the failings of Clinton were singled out in the audit as being more serious than her predecessor," The Associated Press reported last May. This past Thursday, Twitter users noticed that Trump's @POTUS Twitter account appeared to be linked to the personal Gmail account of his White House social media director, Dan Scavino. Scavino has apparently fixed that, but linking to a commercial email address made the Twitter account more vulnerable to hacking.

The ties to Teneo

Trump's former spokesman, Jason Miller, turned down a White House position in December, citing commitments to his family. On Friday, Axios reported Miller was taking a position with Teneo Strategy, a company that once put the Clintons in hot water. The Republican-led Senate Judiciary Committee scrutinized for years whether Teneo had "improper access to the highest levels of U.S. government" when Clinton was secretary of state, Reuters reports. While Miller does not have a job in the White House, he assured in December that he looks "forward to continuing to support the president-elect from the outside after my work on the transition concludes."

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