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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Jitendra Joshi

What won the US election for Donald Trump? It was the economy, stupid

There will be no end of numbers to crunch after the darkest, most dramatic White House campaign of our lifetimes. But here’s one to focus on: 45%.

That’s the number of US voters nationwide who, in exit polls, said their family's financial situation was worse off today than it was four years ago.

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