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Watch: Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell baffled by Trump’s victory

Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart have their eyes on the prize (Youtube)
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Donald Trump is on course to win the US election – and it’s safe to say that Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell aren’t thrilled about the news.

On a livestream of their Rest is Politics podcast, Stewart – who earlier this week said he hadn’t ‘changed my mind on Kamala Harris winning comfortably’ – struggled to process the news that the US election was far closer than he may have hoped.

Stewart suggested that Trump’s success in winning the two key swing states of North Carolina and Georgia was difficult to comprehend given how good the Democrats’ ground game was during the campaign:

‘When a result happens, you rewrite history. If she (Kamala Harris) was currently winning, you’d have a very good answer for why she was winning. Abortion would be number one. Number two would be that she had much more money than he did. Number three: she had a real ground game.

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