Directly on fbi director james comey, saying his announcement stopped her momentum. Not only have democrats lost the presidency, the senate, the house and state legislatures all remain in republican hands. How do democrats rebuild . Senator cory booker and congressman Keith Ellison join me. Did donald trump win the election . Or did Hillary Clinton lose it . We will dig into the numbers. Joining me are david brooks, katty kay, hugh hewitt and nina turner. Welcome to sunday and the postelection edition of meet the press. From nbc news in washington, this is meet the press with chuck todd. Good sunday morning and, boy, this is no ordinary sunday. If theres one idea that was voluntarily dated tuesday, its that we live in a split screen country. Half the country feels it finally got its country back and the other half fears they lost their country on election day. Half the nation once again feels at home in a country they recognize. The other half worries that theyre now homeless in their own home country. That split screen idea is reflects in the vote. With 93 of the vote counted, Hillary Clinton leads donald trump by more than 600,000 votes, larger than al gore had in the popular vote over george w. Bush. She will almost surely end up winning the popular vote by two percentage points. Elections are not won that way. They are won and lost in the Electoral College. Trumps victory sparked protests over the past few days. One question many people are asking is, how did the polls get it so wrong . Hillary clinton has one answer. Yesterday she said fbi director james comeys two email announcements 11 days before the election and the other two days before the election proved fatal. Clinton told donors, quote the election shocker put republicans in control of all the levers of power in washington and many levers around the country. It has left clinton voters asking themselves, what just happened. So hillary called. And it was a lovely call. And it was a tough call for her. In a category five political storm, we missed what should have been clear, donald trump is the latest in a series of winning president ial candidates who faced opponents with deep resumes or per seeceived experi. And americans voted for change in 2016. If we have learned nothing else from the past two years of elections, we should hear that message loud and clear. That the American People want washington to change. In the rust belt, pennsylvania, wisconsin, and michigan, trump turned reliably blue states red. How did he do it . Number one, like reagan and obama before him, trump won the support of White Working Class voters in business blue collar suburbs. Macomb county, home of the reagan democrats, was one of 12 obama counties in michigan that voted trump. I think many people also missed the fear that is really in working men and womens hearts andouls. 2008 scared people. Number two, the Obama Coalition did not turn out where it needed to. Turnout was down among africanamerican voters. In cleveland, clinton got 63,000 viewer votes than obama did. Democratic votes were down to wayne county and in walk county. Number three, trump spiked the vote in Rural America. While romney won in rural areas by 19 points in pennsylvania, trump won them by 45 points. The rural jobs are tougher to find. So all of these different factors, you know, made it a little easier for donald trump and his campaign focusing on immigrants taking jobs, trade deals causing jobs to be lost. Clinton also struggled to articulate why voters should support her beyond the fact that she was not trump. What is the big idea of your candidacy . Look, we are stronger together. We are stronger together in facing our internal challenges and our external ones. Instead of running clear economic messaging in small town and Rural America as obamas campaign did now he has a plan that will give millionaires a tax break. Knock the crab out of him. The outcome is unfathomable. Discourse has changed forever. The other half celebrate. What im seeing is a return back to family values. Joining me now is the woman who ran the trump campaign, and is now helping with the transition, Kellyanne Conway. Welcome back to the show. Thank you, chuck. Let me start, its amazing what a difference a month makes. A month ago, Speaker Paul Ryan was not inviting him to a rally. He said donald trump didnt speak not Republican Party. Paul ryan changed his tune. On election day, you and i had a conversation. You were setting up the idea that maybe if he comes up short, the Republican Party has a lot to answer for. Is this victory because of the Republican Party or despite of it . Because of the Republican Party. But mostly because of donald j. Trump. He created a movement. You see the turnout in the counties that went for donald trump being way up. The see the counties in the states that were more for Hillary Clinton being way down in turnout. The enthusiasm and momentum, chuck, that donald trump created as part of his Movement Really ended up translating into votes on election day. I hope even those who were critical of mr. Trump, of president elect trump, i like the sound of that, i hope they learn something from the voters. Thats what so many of us have been urging from the beginning. You want to grow the Republican Party . Pay attention to what he has done. Before the election, there were democrats telling Hillary Clinton, if she won, she needed to spend time in red america. Does donald trump need to spend time in blue america, not just have rallies with supporters but maybe have town halls with opponent snz. Sure. He has shown his willingness to spend time in blue america. Its how he won the election. Busting the blue wall. Theres a difference. Talking to theres one thing talking going to states where he finds voters who agree with him. But talking to voters who disagree with him. He found a lot of voters who disagreed with the Republican Party all along and they voted for him. Those were the undercover trump voters we tried to talk about. You said a chief of staff announcement was imminent. Who a president names as chief of staff does set a tone. I want to quote dan balls. Do they want washington to work better or do they expect him to be disruptive as a president . It seems reince priebus, chairman of the rnc as chief of staff would send one direction about working with paul ryan. Steve bannon, might send a more disruptive message. Should we read into that depending on who he names . Well, they will both have big roles in a trump administration, as well as they should. It was a very small core senior team. Probably less than ten people all told. Im sure that everyone will be very important to the president moving forward. I will say this though. I think having worked with him and known him, steve bannon in this particular campaign was the general. And he is much more the Goldman Sachs managing partner and the naval officer than people realize. What you are saying is he wouldnt come in to say, lets burn washington down . I think the president elect is there to implement his first 100 day plan and those around him know that and will appreciate that, whether its within his inner circle on capitol hill. We are very grateful in trump world to both bannon and priebus. I think you will see them continue to Work Together. We work closely together. This is a mandate. Those of us who are around him will its a mandate support him. You say its a mandate. How do you explain losing the popular vote . You got big states in there like california and illinois, new york. All part of america. Of course theyre part of america. Thats my point. Thats half the country its one thing to claim a mandate. I think governingwise i guess what you are saying. But you do have a public opinionwise or popularitywise, thats a different story. How do you scare tquare the two my colleagues across the aisle are smart people. I respect them. They misread america. They did not have her in red states. They were pretending they were going to turn red blue. They were pretending it was said and you covered it like it was gospel, literally said, we will know this election result before election day because of the early vote. False. But written about. She had a good election good early voting but horrible election day turnout. Then it was, we will have historic turnout. False. It was written about and covered as if it were true because it came from them. I just want to say to you about him, he has put out an agenda that everybody can see. He has talked about what his replacement for obamacare would be. He has talked about his plan to defeat radical islamic terrorism. He is going to create 45 million jobs over ten years, invest in energy and infrastructure. Its all there. Let me ask you one final question. Hillary clinton pinned the blame on james comey for her loss. Do you believe comey did have an impact, whether direct impact or not, do you believe it had some that had it some help to your candidacy . I think its unfortunate that for secretary clinton who is a woman of enormous gifts and talents and she should be commended for putting her sl out there and running to are president twice, i cant believe its always somebody elses fault. Sometimes you have to take a look in the mirror and reflect on what went wrong. We saw the polls tightening as you must have before the comey announcement on october 28. I think to recognize the fact that 40 Million People have voted, they cant have it both ways in clinton world. They were quoted that very weekend, chuck, on your show and others as saying, people have decided. People have already incorporated the email scandal into their voting decisions. Now theyre going back and saying he had an impact. What about the fact that they just got it wrong . What about the fact they werent in touch with americans and the cultural zeitgeist and the issue set that motivate american ss . Im going to leave it there. Congratulations. The first woman to run a successful president ial campaign as campaign manager. That should not thrilled for the country. That should not get lost in all of this. Thanks for coming on. Joining me is a democrat who represents a part of the country that perhaps still cant believe they lost tuesday. Senator cory booker of new jersey. Welcome back to meet the press. Thank you for having me on again. Let me put the question to you this way. What did you learn from the voters on tuesday . What message did they send to you . Look, i think that Neither Party should be standing with pride and chest thumping right now when you have something thats very historic, one of the few times in which the Electoral College and popular vote were different. The message to both parties should be right now that we need to find ways to Work Together to speak to the american public. This is an election like i have never seen before. And i think it reflects the fact that many people have a dissatisfaction with politics as usual. Both parties should be humble, reach out to each and find ways to build on common ground, to serve the concerns, the rightful frustrations of the American People. When you ran for senate, you talked about you wanted to be a disrupter in that positive sense when you think of the way Silicon Valley companies are thought of as disrupters. Trump, clinton, i heard a lot of voters talking about trump as a disrupter. Do you get the sense maybe that is that was something that was missing in Hillary Clintons message . You know, i think theres going to be a lot of time to focus on the data in this election and figure out what happened. I know theres people on both sides trying to sift through it all. Right now, im dealing with the fact that ive never seen an election like this one before where people are so fearful. We elected someone who spews so much twitter trolllike bile and hate and bigotry that i have people erupting in tears, even the flight i have to come here, an africanamerican single mom slipped me a note and hugged me with tears in her eyes. So this is a time where i have deep concern about the future of our country. Ive never seen an election from folks who tell me about their children feeling as if they have to leave the nation because theyre going to come after them. My concern right now is standing in the breach and trying to turn fear into hope and trying to let folks know were going to fight forward and defend fellow americans against what might or might not come. Whats your message to these protesters that are popping up . I was talking with Kellyanne Conway about it, asking if donald trump should address these folks . She says he has. She said she thinks that president obama and secretary clinton should be telling these protesters, essentially, you need to accept the defeat and give some time and space to president elect trump. Whats your message to the protesters . Im sitting here right now having this conversation with you because of the tradition of american protest. I have my rights, not because of washington suddenly deciding strom thur mman and others, let give people rights but because of the voice of protesters. When you have a president that in his campaign who ran saying things that not arent just contrary to fact but literally threatening to use president ial power in a way that would erode the rights and privileges and equality of large sections of americans, god bless the protesters. But i will tell you this. I caution anyone who in their protest becomes the very thing that theyre protesting against. Meaning, turning to hateful speech, violating principles and ideals that are sacred in this country. We need to raise our voices, but we do not need to indulge in hate. I still remember how upset i was and the aftermath of president obamas election where people and Republican Leadership didnt say that i want to focus on the issues and values of our country but my number one goal is to see that barack obama is not a twoterm president. Thats outrageous. I would never do that. My number one goal to fight to protect poor people, ethnic and religious minorities, working class folks. So im not going to become what the other side in many ways did that i felt was despicable, whether it was heckling a president during his state of the Union Address or questioning the birth and the legitimacy of a president. Those things were despicable to me. We need to not lose our honor. We need to not lose our class in the way that we go about being a noble opposition. The Obama Coalition didnt turn out to vote for her. About half you could look at it two different ways. There were some parts of the Obama Coalition that voted trump, particularly when you look at what happened in michigan. 12 counties with working class folks who voted obama over romney picked trump over clinton. Then there were turnout issues in other places like wisconsin. Is this a reminder that the Obama Coalition is not a Democratic Party coalition . You know, so again, i live in a city and ive lived my entire professional live ive lived in a poor census track Median Income where i live. Its 14,000. I seen people come out in droves for obama in 2008. I have seen them not couple out in our governors race in 2009. What happened after that race, the earned income tax credit was cut, protecting millionaires in our state but cutting poor people, raising taxes on poor people. I have seen planned parenthood attacked. Elections have kwconsequences. Name it whatever you want, but when you dont come out and vote, some people might think, its not going to affect my life. But there are people in this nation on margins that elections like this will hurt and will have a deep impact. Again, thats why put me in the opposition. Put me in those people that are going to resist those things in our country that are going to happen now where the folks who now are in power have said they have told us who they are. They have an agenda thats going to hurt those folks who are working class americans, americans struggling. Were going to have to do everything question to fight against that to make sure that even though we didnt get big turnouts where we needed we had the votes we needed to win. Even though we didnt get the turnouts, its not time to give up. We have to keep fighting. What are you looking for in the next head of the Democratic Party . The next head needs to be a committed progressive, somebody thats going to help to get our message out. Again, ive been working in my community for a long time. Ive seen what happens when Mortgage Companies run amok and do things i consid should have been illegal. Is that Keith Ellison . That is a name that gives me hope and excitement. Theres a process. But they need to be a committed progressive. They need to be someone in this time where theres a vacuum of leadership, that will join others of the committed resistance and stand in the breach. We need to reach out and give space for partnership and collaboration. Thats the humility i was talking about to find to see if theres things we can Work Together on. But ultimately, if they come after us, with bigotry, pr prejudi prejudice, if they come after we need to make america love again and do everything we can to prevent this country from becoming the way that donald trump campaigned. If he governs the way he campaigned, it will be a disastrous presidency. This is a chance for him to be mag n to work across the aisle. If not, i want our dnc chair, i want Democratic Senators to resist. Cory booker, democrat from new jersey, tha