At 1.35 in the morning Eastern Time on 9 November 2016 Donald Trump was almost certain to become the next president of the United States. The Republican candidate began to look like the winner in the evening of 8 November, when he clinched first Florida and then North Carolina. But it was an hour and a half into the next day that the game was virtually over: that was when Trump won Pennsylvania, a state the GOP hadn’t added to its column since 1988. It was the first breach of Hillary Clinton’s “firewall”, which featured large industrial northern states that...
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