Even before Donald Trump takes the oath of office on 20 January next year, he has already made the history books. In the 240 years of our Republic, not one person has ever been elected to the presidency without having served in public office or as a general of the Army. On election day, the American people picked one of the best-known businessmen in the nation to become its 45th president.
This news completely flummoxed the media and political establishment. On election night at about 5pm Eastern time, I received a call from one of the top political guns in the country. He told me the exit poll data and other tracking numbers were showing a Hillary win of 320 to 330 electoral votes. Practically every pollster in the nation had a similar opinion. They were almost all wrong.
Shakespeare has this frequently-quoted line about killing all the lawyers, but I think we should just simply say: ‘Kill the political experts’.
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