FIRST it was unthinkable. Then it was highly improbable. Now it is reality: Donald Trump will become the 45th president of the United States. At 2:31am eastern time, media organisations called the election for him. In a victory speech shortly after that, Mr Trump said that Hillary Clinton had called him to concede. The outcome had been assured for hours, and in the end was not even close: depending on which way the razor-thin race in New Hampshire breaks, Mr Trump is projected to win either 305 or 309 electoral votes, well clear of the 270 needed for victory. Mrs Clinton is nearly as certain to win the national popular vote, according to the New York Times forecast, probably by a margin of around 1-1.5 percentage points, making this contest the sixth of the past seven cycles in which more people have voted for the Democrat than the Republican. But that will provide cold comfort to the majority of the electorate that supported her.
Mr Trump’s path to victory followed precisely the contours that he has boldly projected—to great derision from the...Continue reading
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