#Clinton vs #Trump: Battle of the #NewYorkers

Perhaps the only guarantee in Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump’s epic fight for the White House is that Americans will get their first New Yorker president since World War II.

On a likely freezing January 20, 2017 either the adopted daughter who served twice as state senator or the Queens-born, Manhattan billionaire will be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States.

Their campaign is the first time in 72 years that two New Yorkers are facing off in a US general election since Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated then Republican governor of New York, Thomas Dewey, in 1944.

Clinton and Trump are two extraordinarily different personalities who once socialized together but are now political enemies. Yet both come from the same place in a country that straddles four time zones.


How?

New York’s pulling power is one answer.

New York attracts very aggressive, high quality, high performing individuals,” says Sharyn O’Halloran, professor of political economy and international and public affairs at Columbia University.

“Sometimes you’ve got to have that oomph that only a New Yorker can bring,” joked Will Liu, a 30-year-old working in finance who took his husband to celebrate Clinton clinching the Democratic nomination.

“I know that if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.”


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