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Donald Trump’s Victory: Implications for US-Asia Relations

2016-11-23 21:34:11       source:ICAS

Written by Sourabh Gupta with Peter Liang


"Not since Harry Truman registered a surprise, come-from-behind victory over his Republican challenger Thomas Dewey in 1948 has an American presidential election delivered such a stunning upset. On November 8, 2016, Donald Trump defeated his Democratic Party challenger Hillary Clinton in a bruising race, despite having trailed in virtually every authoritative poll in the months leading into the election. As it happens, when the votes are officially tallied, Trump will likely end up with an almost identical electoral college total to that of Truman (306 for Truman's 303)."

 

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