Trump Won...

Thursday, November 10^th 2016

An Unexpected Outcome :

the World is Flabbergasted !

       On the eve of this election, the polls were clearly in favour of Hillary Clinton : they predicted she would win, so everybody expected the democrats to win.

       Mr Selingue thought that if the UK had voted for Brexit, it wasn't impossible that the US could elect Donald Trump. Moreover, the Simpsons predicted it in 2000, so it was BOUND TO happen.

       In the end, the white, uneducated blue-collar workers, often from the suburbs or the countryside voted massively for Trump. They are often deeply religious, conservative. They wanted to protect America from what they perceived as dangers, such as immigration, globalization, etc. They felt disaffected / left-out / forsaken, they were fed up with the Washington establishment and they wanted change. Trump embodied / symbolized / epitomized this change, he was an 'outsider', and he captured these people's imagination.

Thursday, November 10^th 2016

Trump's Triumph

       Before the results, Mr Daage expected Hillary Clinton because all the polls predicted her victory.

       Mr Ait Lahssaine agrees, but he wasn't so sure because of the Brexit vote : everybody expected the UK to stay in the EU, but the Brexit vote really happened...

       Actually / In reality, Donald Trump won a massive / large victory. Looking at the election map, a majority of the states voted for Trump. The east coast and west coasts did vote for Hillary, but Trump won many more states.

       Unsurprisingly Donald Trump won in the south / in the Sun Belt / in the Bible Belt, but Hillary Clinton was supposed to win in the midwest / in the Rust Belt and Trump won key Swing States there.

       The irony is that in fact Hillary Clinton won the popular votes, she won more individual votes than Trump.

       Trump also won the Congress, i.e. (= that is to say) the House of Representatives and the Senate !

       The typical Trump voter was an uneducated, religious white man, not living in the city. Disaffected « blue collars » voted massively for Donald Trump because they were fed up with Washington. They felt abandonned / left-out.

       Trump embodied / symbolized / epitomized 'change', because he was not a Washington politician, he was an 'outsider'. Besides he has great charisma and his personal success is impressive. Many voters were angry, and Trump « captured their imagination ».

       On the contrary, Clinton was a typical Washington figure and she seemd suspicious / shady / untrustworthy / unreliable.