Hillary Clinton will spend election night under a literal glass ceiling
Hillary Clinton often talks about shattering the glass ceiling, and on election night she will be literally standing beneath one.
The Democratic presidential nominee’s campaign announced Wednesday that Clinton will deliver remarks to supporters and volunteers at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on the night of Nov. 8.
The venue, designed by I.M. Pei, is located on the West Side of Manhattan, overlooks the Hudson River and is constructed of glass and steel. The Javits Center also has the largest green roof in the city, measuring nearly 7 acres.
Her choice of the Javits Center is not without irony, since Donald Trump wrote in his book The Art of the Deal that he lobbied New York to name the building after his family, according to Mother Jones. The city wound up choosing a different developer and Trump wrote that “the result was perhaps the most horrendous construction delays and cost overruns in the history of the building business.”
“The construction was a terrible disgrace, and all the worse because no one raised a fuss about it. When I was invited to attend opening-day ceremonies in 1986, I refused. What happened at the convention center is that the city and state took a great piece of property and a great project and ruined it through terrible planning and ridiculous cost overruns,” Trump said.
If Trump holds his election night event at his headquarters in Trump Tower, the two nominees will be less than 3 miles away from each other.
