Heads buried in their phones, maybe two dozen Democrats in Israel sit on mismatched chairs and on hammocks suspended from the ceiling at Tel Aviv’s hip Abraham Hostel.
One lone, pregnant woman wears a blue T-shirt bearing Hillary Clinton’s “Stronger Together” slogan. The rest of the Democrats in Israel are more subdued in their support.
Democratic supporters in Tel Aviv watch election night coverage on November 9, 2016. (Judah Ari Gross/ Times of Israel)
Wolf Blitzer, projected on a wall, is giving them bad news.
Their candidate, Hillary Clinton, is down by 31 electoral votes.
Clinton’s still got time, of course, with some of the larger and more clearly Democratic states yet to declare one way or the other.
But as CNN’s Jake Tapper mentions Trump’s “unexpected” results thus far, one Clinton supporter who just walked in lets out an audible gasp, and pulls up a chair.
— Judah Ari Gross
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