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    People share memories of election night 2016

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    As the 2024 presidential election comes to a close, people are reminiscing about the drama of last election night. We asked the BuzzFeed community, “Where were you on election night in 2016, and how did you react to the news that Trump had won?” This is what they had to say:

    1.

    “It was my birthday, I was playing trivia at the bar, and the whole night went to hell. I had to break the news to my teenage daughter the next morning that the sexual predator manbaby had won the highest office in the land over the clearly better qualified woman. Not a great birthday present.”

    2.

    “I went to bed early, CONFIDENT of a Hillary win, because HOW could anyone vote for that criminal? I woke up, blew out two tires on the way to the office and spent the next few hours in a tire shop, devastated and overdressed.”

    —jodidowdellclawson

    3.

    “I fell asleep because the results weren’t official yet, but I thought Clinton definitely had it in the bag. Oh boy, waking up the next morning was tough. And since I’m a teacher, I’m confronted by my students with The sickening truth was rougher.”

    —puifangong

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    4.

    “I worked at a restaurant and we were super busy; I didn’t have time to follow what was happening, and we didn’t put the news on at the bar. My boyfriend picked me up and I got in the car and he watched me and said, ‘Trump is awake and it looks like he’s going to win,’ and we sat in silence the whole drive home. He went to bed early and I stayed up all night, sure the results were going to change change.”

    5.

    “As a Brit, I think I was in bed asleep, but the next morning I saw the news and was horrified. It came in as we were reeling from the Brexit decision, and the world has gone downhill since then.”

    – star-crossed lovers again

    6.

    “I went to bed early. I woke up, looked at the headlines and thought, ‘Oh. That’s not good.'”

    – stay sober

    7.

    “I was staying with family in Pennsylvania. I cried when Trump won.”

    8.

    “Well, I voted for him, and I was a Republican then, but I’m a Democrat now and I’ll never make that mistake again. We’ll never back down!”

    —legendary9523

    9.

    “My friend and I watched the results on TV in a restaurant, but eventually went home and went to bed. At 3am I got up to go to the toilet, so I turned on the TV. The election was declared for Trump, and my heart sank. I didn’t even realize the depression I had fallen into until another friend said she had experienced the same thing. It was NOT good.

    —baobaopanda

    10.

    ‘I moved to Prague, certain that my country of origin was in good hands with Clinton. I remember being up all night and pressing refresh over and over again in disbelief. I was so sure she had it! I’m still in disbelief. How could anyone, especially now, want him as their leader? If my grandfather behaved the way he did, we would put him in a home.”

    11.

    “I can’t remember how I felt when Trump won. It is a feeling that I have suppressed and that I will hopefully never experience again.”

    —jmacxjr

    12.

    “I was home. I went to bed early, peacefully believing that Hillary was in the lead. I woke up and felt a feeling of dread in my stomach that hadn’t gone away for four years.”

    —ashleyjaeger

    13.

    “I was 24 and hosting an election night party with my coworkers at my first solo apartment in Dupont Circle in Washington, DC. Things got dark around 8:30/9 p.m. By 9:45 p.m. my apartment was empty because everyone wanted to go home and get out of their watching the train wreck unfold in my own bed.”

    14.

    “I was ten. I went to bed terrified. The next morning my parents sat with my little brothers and sisters and me to tell us the news. I am now eighteen and proudly voting for Harris. There is only one choice in this elections 💙💙💙”

    —katiehaas25

    15.

    “I was 16. Even though I couldn’t vote, it was the first election I was old enough to attend. Many of my friends were women, gay, or both. I cried when they called the race on election night. When I next When I came to school this morning, I saw most of my friends crying and scared. I just felt so hopeless and disappointed in our country.”

    –frecklefreak14

    16.

    “I went to bed that night before I heard the results. The next morning I found out and cried in my bed. Later, I left my apartment building to go to work and saw two young girls wearing headscarves (there was a lot of Islamophobia during the Trump’s 2016 campaign), and I thought about their future and started crying again.”

    17.

    “At home. I was devastated and shocked. But the next day I heard that my 9-year-old niece thought our family was being deported because we are Mexican. Hatred and racism are his platform. So, in her pragmatic child mind, we were clearly not welcome and would be forced to leave our home. That broke my heart.’

    —golupe

    18.

    “I was working at a restaurant in Austin, Texas, along with other very dedicated coworkers. The host gave us updates and we were very hopeful until we weren’t. The next afternoon I had to work with the same people, and we made sure to have a drink at work to numb our feelings.”

    —Rugggggs

    19.

    “I was with a large group of friends at a well-known Philly dive bar and casually watched the results as we hung out, fully expecting Hillary to win and so wasn’t worried and enjoyed a night out. That was the last presidential election It’s not like everyone is glued to their TVs, desperately watching MSNBC, hoping that democracy can survive another four years.”

    20.

    “That was the night I had the worst crying fits of my entire life. A few years later I found out that my daughter and my granddaughter also had the ugliest crying fits of their lives. I pray this bastard never sets foot in the White House again.”

    —babyCapricorn129

    21.

    ‘I was with my ex who supported Trump. I’m Spanish, but I was also naive and ignorant then. I wasn’t done forming my belief system yet. I remember lying in bed and pestering my ex with questions about Trump’s policies because My gut knew it would be bad, but I didn’t know enough to understand why. These days, for me, it means being a Republican, and especially a Trump supporter.”

    —gigi

    22.

    “I was in college. The next day was… eerily quiet. It was a shock to the entire campus.”

    23.

    “I was working at a medical clinic where everyone on shift was a woman, POC, or LGBTQ+. There were a lot of tears. 😢 I’m so worried about Tuesday.”

    —ARAN12

    24.

    “I went to bed that night and my mom woke me up and told me the news. I immediately started crying. The next day I went to my Spanish class in 10th grade, and the kid next to me told me to go back to where I came from.”

    —Kitkat0120

    25.

    “I was a senior in New York, and I popped champagne and invested all the money I had saved from birthdays and Christmas in the stock market and saw almost a 20% return on it. By the time I went to school, I was able to day trade for spending money in college until the pandemic. It was a great time, and I hope (but wouldn’t bet) we can do it again on Tuesday.

    26.

    “At home. In bed. I was upset because he was the one elected to the Republican party and I was still ruminating over the fact that he somehow defeated the other Republicans who wanted to run for president. I never in my wildest dreams thought he would do that.” win.”

    “Since he did that, I personally feel like he has ruined the Republican Party forever. I now simply consider myself a conservative moderate who absolutely refuses to vote for that wretched man and for what the party has become. His running mate is also an idiot.”

    -sleeping minion78

    27.

    “I live in Brooklyn and work on 5th in downtown Manhattan. I got the news that Trump had won when I woke up the morning after Election Day. To put it delicately, it felt like hot, steaming cat diarrhea was being unnecessarily shoveled over my head. If he wins again, it will be a full-body immersion in a cat poop spa on Wednesday.”

    -Bread

    28.

    And finally: “During the 2016 election, I worked at a county election office. It was an exciting and busy day; we worked 20 hours straight as voters and ballots poured in. We occasionally left work to get updates on the news My heart sank as it became increasingly clear that Trump would win.”

    What are your plans for tonight? Are you watching the election results at home? With friends? In a bar with a lot of alcohol? Let us know in the comments.

    Note: Entries have been edited for length and clarity.

    🗳 🇺🇲 Make your vote count! Learn more about how to register, important deadlines, and vote-by-mail options in your state here. For more information on the 2024 election, check out coverage on BuzzFeed, HuffPost and NBC News.

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