Updated, 11:01 a.m

Good morning on this gloomy Wednesday.

We knew there would be a winner, and we knew there would be a loser.

In the end, Donald J. Trump, the real-estate developer from Queens, triumphed.

But perhaps we didn’t expect, based on the election forecasts, to be kept on the edge of our seats for as long as we were.

Even at the candidates’ post-election festivities, both held in New York City, supporters were holding their breath until the very end.