David Plouffe: “In Detroit, Mrs. Clinton received roughly 70,000 votes fewer than Mr. Obama did in 2012; she lost Michigan by just 12,000 votes. In Milwaukee County in Wisconsin, she received roughly 40,000 votes fewer than Mr. Obama did, and she lost the state by just 27,000. In Cuyahoga County, Ohio, turnout in majority African-American precincts was down 11 percent from four years ago.”

“It’s a reminder that presidential campaigns are driven in large part by personality, not party. Ronald Reagan, President Obama and now Mr. Trump all were able to create electoral coalitions unique to them.”

Financial Times: “Donald Trump’s victory is no ordinary shock. For once the word seismic is merited. On the domestic front, it was a rejection of the US establishment personified by Hillary Clinton — in much the same way Mr Trump’s capture of the Republican nomination closed the book on the Bush era.”

“For a country seething with resentment at Washington’s oligarchic ways, there could be no more tempting piñatas than America’s leading dynasties. The Clintons and the Bushes are now over. Mr Trump’s victory also marks a sharp break from more than 70 years of American global leadership, a role he has railed against for decades. Having launched a hostile takeover of the Republican party, Mr Trump has now pulled off the same with the US federal government. Democracy’s capacity to surprise apart, Mr Trump’s win signals a disruption of almost everything the world has taken for granted about America.”

David Maraniss: “Few Americans knew the voters who rejected Hillary Clinton better than her husband. He lived among them growing up, and then studied them with a fanatical intensity during his political rise.”

“But now, with any notion of a dynasty dead and gone, one explanation for the stunning political demise of the Clintons might be the extent to which they moved away from a middle-American sensibility into the realm of the coastal elite, from McDonald’s to veganism to put it in symbolic terms, making it harder for Hillary to bridge the nation’s yawning social divide. This rendered her vulnerable even to the most unlikely opponent, a wealthy Manhattan real estate developer who had nothing in common with many of his voters except his uncanny ability to speak their language of discontent.”

“Look, I like Keith Ellison a lot. He’s a very good guy. There’s one problem: you cannot do this job and sit in a political office at the same time. It’s not possible. We’ve seen what happens – Debbie Wasserman Schultz was not the only person to ever do that. It does not work. This is more than a full-time job.”

— Howard Dean, in an interview with MSNBC on why he should be the next DNC chairman.