Most shoppers in East York had little to say about the U.S. political landscape and Donald Trump following his inauguration as the 47th president of the United States on Jan. 20.
Clinton was in Toronto on the first stop on the Canadian leg of her book tour promoting her new memoir "What Happened." She talked about the election, sexism in politics and the danger of disinformation.
Eva James may well have needed the march in Washington to prove that her mother Carmen Kirschling was right.
“I always believed women were the strength of a nation,” Kirschling said. “That’s how I was raised, and how I tried to raise my daughter.”
James, 34, said she was devastated when she learned that Donald Trump was elected U.S. president.
“I started hearing what Donald Trump was saying about women and then I heard that other people were starting to accept what he said as the truth,” James said. “I didn’t want that for women, especially the younger girls who don’t know who they are just yet.”
Few expected Trump to be elected the president of the United States.
Trump’s lead on Tuesday sent global financial markets into disarray as the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted by 800 points overnight. But despite the early panic on election night, financial markets quickly bounced back into shape on Wednesday.
Amidst cheers and yelps at the crowded Erie County Republican Committee viewing party, Rep. Chris Collins learned he had been re-elected on Tuesday night for a third term in the House of Representatives for the 27th district in New York State. Collins was the first representative to endorse Donald Trump for president.
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