New Yorker releases the cover it would have run if Hillary Clinton had won the 2016 election

WHAT would the world be like if Hillary Clinton had won the US election? We’ll never know, but this is how the New Yorker would have looked.

Dana McCauley

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September 15, 2017 - 4:15PM

Hillary Clinton signs copies of her memoir at a book store in New York. Picture: Seth Wenig

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IT’S like a glimpse of an alternative universe.

The first female President of the United States of America stares out at a moonlight sky, her hand on the back of a chair in the Oval Office.

As Hillary Clinton traverses the US promoting her book about her devastating electoral loss, the New Yorker has released the cover image it would have run, had she won.

Titled “The First,” the illustration by Malika Favre imagines a brave new world that must now seems like a distant fantasy to Clinton’s supporters.

This is the cover we would have published had Hillary Clinton defeated Donald Trump: https://t.co/Qc8hQUjefa pic.twitter.com/0bL2dcvaRz
â€” The New Yorker (@NewYorker) September 13, 2017

Instead, magazine’s post-election cover featured Bob Staake’s “The Wall.”

The New Yorker’s art editor Françoise Mouly wrote at the time: “When we first received the results of the election, we felt as though we had hit a brick wall, full force.”

An early look at next week's cover, â€œThe Wall,â€ by Bob Staake: https://t.co/f9qJvRniou pic.twitter.com/u6RQRfQsI1
â€” The New Yorker (@NewYorker) November 11, 2016

It released the alternative cover ahead of next week’s issue, which carries an interview with Clinton “about her new memoir, the campaign, her stinging loss, and its aftermath”.

The vanquished candidate tells journalist David Remnick: “Literally, at times when I was writing it, I had to go lie down . . . I just couldn’t bear to relive it.”

Twitter users were less than sympathetic to the New Yorker’s alternative cover, with many advising the publication to “move on”.

Fixed It: This is the cover we should have published when Hillary Clinton LOST to Donald Trump pic.twitter.com/IpIts3J1dA
â€” Daily Rushbo (@DailyRushbo) September 14, 2017