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Hillary Clinton again collides with the highest glass ceiling

The glass ceiling of the Javits Center in Manhattan, where Clinton supporters thought they’d be celebrating, remained intact

IT TURNS OUT THAT THE HIGHEST, HARDEST GLASS CEILING is reinforced with metal beams. The Javits Center in Manhattan, where Hillary Clinton had planned to give a victory speech under an actual glass ceiling, turned into a scene of despair on election night and into early Wednesday morning as Donald Trump won the presidency. Female supporters wearing white pantsuits and nasty woman buttons sat on the floor, many of them crying, realizing that they were witnessing

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