Against all of the odds, against the received wisdom about how this US election would pan out, against the establishment within his own party, and at times against himself, he’s done it. Donald Trump beaten Hillary Clinton to become the forty-fifth President of the United States of America.
Champion of middle America, Donald Trump threw out the political rulebook to first win his party’s nomination, and then go on to shatter Hillary Clinton’s dreams of following her husband into the White House. The glass ceiling remains firmly in place, and now it’s time for America’s flashiest builder to add a supporting southern wall.
America and the world are in shock as the pollsters failed to poll and model this election accurately. There will be much soul-searching in America now about the country’s reluctance to elect a woman to be president. It is staggering, but undeniably true that Donald Trump could not have won this election without Russia’s help. The Cold War may be over, but Russia’s involvement in US politics has now changed the course of America’s history.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign struggled to cope with the waves of revelations in the emails leaked by hackers in an election which saw Clinton unable to shake off scandal. Somehow Trump retained a Teflon-like quality, while Clinton fought fires arising from hacks to email accounts that 17 separate intelligence agencies blame on Russia. How much did the rolling coverage of the FBI’s investigation kill off enthusiasm for Clinton among Democratic voters?
Hillary Clinton’s campaign struggled to cope with the waves of revelations in the emails leaked by hackers in an election which saw Clinton unable to shake off scandal. Somehow Trump retained a Teflon-like quality, while Clinton fought fires arising from hacks to email accounts that 17 separate intelligence agencies blame on Russia. How much did the rolling coverage of the FBI’s investigation kill off enthusiasm for Clinton among Democratic voters?
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