- Title: As United States counts votes, American diplomat in Australia urges reconciliation
- Date: 9th November 2016
- Summary: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA (NOVEMBER 9, 2016) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF PEOPLE WATCHING SCREENS AT U.S. CONSUL GENERAL'S ELECTION WATCH PARTY STICKER READING 'I VOTED' ON PERSON'S LAPEL (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. CONSUL GENERAL, VALERIE FOWLER SAYING: "Post-election, what I'd like to see, is both sides taking a look at these results and saying that, if we want to appeal to American voters in two years, we need to, at the mid-term elections we need to expand our base, and by doing so we need to look at how we can work with the other side of the aisle and move toward the centre, so that we've got a conversation rather than two parties talking at each other and increase the amount of respect and dialogue, and the listening to each other." REUTERS JOURNALIST TALKING TO FOWLER (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. CONSUL GENERAL, VALERIE FOWLER SAYING: "The United States and Australia is one of our most enduring and important relationships. We are friends and partners, as well as allies, and I'm confident that regardless of who is in the White House or who's in the Lodge, we'll have a very strong relationship that covers all of our strategic, and security, and business and science and technology and education interests." VARIOUS OF PEOPLE AT U.S. CONSUL GENERAL'S ELECTION WATCH PARTY CARDBOARD MODEL OF HILLARY CLINTON AND DONALD TRUMP CARDBOARD MODEL OF TRUMP CARDBOARD MODEL OF CLINTON
- Embargoed: 24th November 2016 05:59
- Keywords: United States election Australia diplomat Trump Clinton
- Location: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
- City: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
- Country: Australia
- Topics: Government/Politics,Elections/Voting
- Reuters ID: LVA00157Q20CN
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- Story Text: As the United States counts election votes, American diplomat and U.S. Consul General, Valerie Fowler urged reconciliation on Wednesday (November 9).
At the U.S. Consul General's election watch party in Sydney, Fowler said that post-election both parties needed to look at the results.
"If we want to appeal to American voters in two years, we need to, at the mid-term elections we need to expand our base, and by doing so we need to look at how we can work with the other side of the aisle and move toward the centre, so that we've got a conversation rather than two parties talking at each other and increase the amount of respect and dialogue," Fowler said.
People at the party wore Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton badges while watching the results on large television screens.
Fowler added that the important relationship between the United States and Australia would not change, whether Clinton or Trump won the election.
"We are friends and partners, as well as allies and I'm confident that regardless of who is in the White House or who's in the Lodge, we'll have a very strong relationship that covers all of our strategic, and security, and business and science and technology and education interests," said Fowler.
Republican Donald Trump edged closer to winning the White House with a series of shocking wins in battleground states such as Florida and Ohio on Tuesday (November 8) night in the United States. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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