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Idaho Trump campaign director: Victory was about ‘desire and need for change’

Much of the remaining crowd at the Idaho GOP election-night watch party in Boise gathers around a TV around midnight. (Betsy Z. Russell)
Much of the remaining crowd at the Idaho GOP election-night watch party in Boise gathers around a TV around midnight. (Betsy Z. Russell)

This was the scene at the Riverside around midnight last night when I left; much of the remaining crowd was gathered around a TV, awaiting a Hillary Clinton concession speech that didn’t come, but now is scheduled to happen this morning. As I left, the crowd began chanting, “Lock her up!”

Layne Bangerter, director of the Trump campaign in Idaho, said in a written statement at 3:20 a.m., “We are humbled and proud the American people have risen up in the face of Washington DC. This victory expresses what we as a nation have been feeling for so long: The desire and need for change.”

The New York Times has a transcript and full video of President-elect Trump’s victory speech online here.



Betsy Z. Russell
Betsy Z. Russell joined The Spokesman-Review in 1991. She currently is a reporter in the Boise Bureau covering Idaho state government and politics, and other news from Idaho's state capital.

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