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A NEW DAY DONS

GOP:
Trump
earned
mandate

Wrinkles
found in
blue-collar
counties
3 of Pa.s Democratic
strongholds turn red
TOM FONTAINE
KEVIN ZWICK

ASSOCIATED PRESS

ANd

For nearly four decades,

suburban Philadelphias four
collar counties served as
Pennsylvanias bellwether
every presidential candidate
who carried the state since
1980 won the largely affluent area that includes Bucks,
Chester, Delaware and Montgomery counties.
That wasnt the case this
year. Democrat Hillary Clinton won the counties by a combined 179,243 votes but lost to
Donald Trump, who became
the first Republican presidential candidate to carry Pennsylvania since 1988.
Trumps appeal in three
blue-collar counties where
manufacturing jobs have disappeared by the thousands
and Democrats outnumber Republicans helps explain how
the billionaire businessman
pulled off Tuesdays stunning
victory.
We are kind of the poster
child for the type of community that found Trump to be appealing. Erie County has been
hit incredibly hard by this
economic transition weve
been undergoing for decades,
said Joseph Morris, director
of Mercyhurst Universitys
Center for Applied Politics
in Erie.
Erie,
Luzer ne
and
Northampton counties are traditional Democratic strongholds that went for President
Obama in 2012, but Trump
flipped them in his favor, according to unofficial results.
They were the only counties
to turn on Democrats in such
a way.
A Republican hasnt won
Erie County since 1984, said
VICTORY A4

REUTERS

President-elect Donald Trump greets his supporters early Wednesday at his victory party in Manhattan.

Message of change drew voters

Western Pennsylvanians tired of politics as usual
say they believe D.C. outsider can make impact
by

TOM yERACE
PAUL PEIRCE

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Tim McRandal hopes his

vote for Donald Trump will be
good for business.
McRandal owns a company in East Deer that makes
equipment such as fittings and
hoses for hydraulic machinery.
McRandall Fluid Power Inc. is
experiencing one of the worst
downturns the Plum resident
said he has seen in more than
20 years. McRandall blames
the collapse of the coal industry, in particular, for hurting
his company.
Ive probably lost four large
accounts in the last year,
McRandal said Wednesday
as he and his wife, Sandra,

ate lunch at Davids Diner

in Springdale Township.
Trump rode a wave of discontent among blue-collar workers and small-business owners,
such as McRandal, to win votes
and defy political pundits in
his stunning upset over Democrat Hillary Clinton in the
presidential election.
His promise to be a champion for the economy reviving the battered coal, steel
and energy industries was
among the messages that resonated with voters in Western
Pennsylvania.
It was the only issue the
economy, Sandra McRandal
said.

....... ELECTION AFTERMATH .......

NATASHA LINDSTROM | TRIBUNE-REVIEW

Colin Jones, 18, a Pitt student from

Hartford, Conn., joins hundreds of
protesters about 3 a.m. Wednesday
for a rally on Pitts campus. A4

WEATHER 58 43
Sunny, breezy today;
mostly clear tonight
Details, A8

How did the pundits

and pollsters who predicted a Clinton presidency ended up dead
wrong?
Pat Toomeys latenight win
over Katie
McGinty
helps
the GOP
maintain
a majority
in the U.S.
Senate.
Congressional GOP
pledges swift action on
Trumps agenda

Stories on A6

INDEX

Vol. 128 No. 282

Five sections
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Comics D11

CHANGE A5

STEPH CHAMBERS | TRIBUNE-REVIEW

Ken Geiser of the Murrysville Export Republican

Committee and Margarete Stacy celebrate Trumps
victory while a thank you sign is hung in front of
the GOP Victory Center in Murrysville.

WASHINGTON Emboldened
Republicans claimed a mandate
Wednesday for President-elect
Donald Trump after his astonishing election triumph, and an
emotional Hillary Clinton told
crestfallen supporters the GOP
victor deserved a chance to
lead. President Obama pledged
a smooth transition of power.
We are now all rooting for
his success in uniting and leading the country, the president
said of the president-elect, the
man who spent years questioning
Obamas birthplace and challenging the legitimacy of his presidency. Obama, who had declared
Trump unfit for the presidency,
invited him to the White House
on Thursday.
Trump was uncharacteristically quiet in the aftermath of
his triumph and made no public appearances Wednesday. He
huddled with jubilant, sleepdeprived advisers at his eponymous skyscraper in Manhattan,
beginning the daunting task of
setting up an administration
that will take power in just over
two months. He also met with
Vice President-elect Mike Pence
and took calls from supporters,
family and friends, according to
spokeswoman Hope Hicks.
In Washington, Trumps scant
transition team sprang into action, culling through personnel
lists for top jobs and working
through handover plans for
government agencies. A person
familiar with the transition operations said the personnel process was still in its early stages,
but Trumps team was putting a
premium on quickly filling key
national security posts.
According to an organizational
chart for the transition obtained
by The Associated Press, Trump
was relying on experienced

TRUMP A4

Pa. has 1M in path of Obamacare repeal

With presidential veto out
of the way, GOP has shot
at replacing health care act

subsidized health plans on the laws

insurance marketplace and enrolled in expanded state Medicaid
programs. When repeal proposals
reached President Obamas desk,
he vetoed them.
by WES VENTEICHER
Some of the latest proposals,
ANd bEN SCHMITT
which could be revived when
If president-elect Donald Trump Trump reaches office, would reand a Republican-controlled Con- verse the Medicaid expansion and
gress repeal Obamacare as they eliminate the subsidies. Changes
promised, more than 20 million outlined in a proposal that both
Americans including about a houses of Congress passed early
million Pennsylvanians could this year would cut an estimated
22 million people from insurance,
lose their health insurance.
Congressional Republicans have according to Congressional Budget
been trying to repeal the federal Office estimates.
I dont think weve seen anyAffordable Care Act since it was
passed six years ago, even as mil- thing on this scale, said Julie
lions of Americans signed up for Donohue, an associate professor

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Crossword 22
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Movies 19
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of health policy and management

in the University of Pittsburghs
Graduate School of Public Health.
... It would be unprecedented.
The estimate includes people who
have coverage through Medicaid
and the Childrens Health Insurance Program, employer-based
plans and individual plans bought
on the federal marketplace or directly from insurers, according to
the CBO analysis of the legislation
Congress passed, known as HR
3762. The changes would decrease
deficits by about $474 billion from
2016 to 2025, according to the estimates.
In Pennsylvania, about 700,000

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