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Trump will hold his election night party inside the White House, with up to 400 invitees: President Trump’s election night party will be held in the East Room of the White House, and aides are discussing inviting roughly 400 people, two officials familiar with the discussions to NYT. The party had been moved from the Trump Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue, the original venue chosen by the campaign, in part because of rules in Washington prohibiting gatherings of more than 50 people.

Now, what had initially been expected to be a small gathering in the East Room has ballooned into a large