Melancholy took Manhattan (except for one particular block of 5th Avenue) on Wednesday hours after Donald Trump won re-election to a second, non-consecutive term over Kamala Harris.
The Election Day enthusiasm that pervaded the Big Apple on Tuesday gave way to the reality of the outcome. Trump might be a native New Yorker, but this is the third time he lost his former home state. Harris won the Empire State and its 28 electoral votes, but Trump won both the popular and electoral votes nationwide — even after being criminally indicted four times and convicted once in Manhattan since his first term.
