Donald Trump swept to triumph successful the contention for the White House yesterday, beating rival Kamala Harris aft weeks of the 2 being neck-and-neck the US polls.
Poll aft canvass of US voters showed hardly a percent constituent betwixt the 2 candidates successful the run-up to yesterday’s election. In the event, contempt the adjacent polls Trump’s triumph was decisive and has been touted arsenic 1 of the biggest governmental comebacks successful American history.
The polls connected this broadside of the pond are a small much decisive however, with opinions of Trump firmly successful the negative. A YouGov canvass taken soon earlier US citizens headed to the voting booths asked Europeans who they thought would marque a bully president.
The canvass asked residents is 7 European countries “If Donald Trump becomes the adjacent president of the USA, bash you deliberation helium would be:
A unspeakable president
A mediocre president
An mean president
Don’t know
A bully president
A large president
Perhaps unsurprisingly the largest reply by acold was that helium would marque a “terrible” president, with radical successful Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Britain, Spain, France and Italy successful agreement.
Of the Brits asked for the poll, 57% of them said Trump would beryllium terrible, portion different 12% said helium would beryllium “poor” astatine the job. 14% of radical said helium would beryllium “average” portion conscionable 7% said “don’t know” to the question. Meanwhile 10% of those asked thought helium would beryllium “good” and 4% said they thought helium would beryllium a “great” president.
The outcomes were broadly akin crossed the antithetic countries, Matthew Smith caput YouGov’s caput of information journalism, said. “The Danes are the astir apt to privation Harris to win, astatine 81%, portion Italians are the slightest apt to, astatine 46% - though this inactive importantly outnumbers the Italian Trump ballot (24%),” helium explained.
“Here successful Britain, 61% accidental they privation the Democratic campaigner to triumph, compared to 16% for her Republican rival.”
The poll, published November 1, was taken respective days earlier the predetermination took spot successful the US and besides asked Europeans who they thought was much apt to win. “When it comes to who Western Europeans deliberation volition win, the wide anticipation successful each state is again that it volition beryllium Harris, ranging from 43% successful Italy to 61% successful Germany,” Mr Smith wrote. Meaning galore successful Europe volition person woken up to an unwelcome astonishment yesterday greeting erstwhile they learned of Trump’s victory.
Meanwhile arsenic the world awaits what Trump plans to bash with his caller statesmanlike powers, 1 mates are keeping an extra-close oculus connected his archetypal decisions successful office, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle person a batch riding on what his 2nd presidency volition look like.