Trump, Clinton plan dueling New York election night parties
NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump could hardly be farther apart politically. But they’ll spend the decisive night of their polarizing presidential campaign barely a New York minute away from one another.
For the first time in recent memory, both major-party candidates are holding election night parties in midtown Manhattan.
Trump, the Republican New York native who embodies what people variously love, hate and love to hate about the nation’s biggest city, is headed to a power hotel that boasts of having hosted every president for more than half a century. Clinton, the Democratic transplant who won over New Yorkers to start her political rise as their senator, will be at a sprawling convention centre with a perhaps symbolic glass ceiling.
Smack in between is Times Square, where election-watching crowds have gathered for decades.