Mehdi Hasan On Why Trump Won | #NovaraLIVE

welcome to Novara live three days after Americans went to the polls and just over two days since we knew that Donald Trump has won the presidency for the second time now you might be thinking why are you still talking about this we're a UK based podcast well two reasons what happens in America Matters in the rest of the world both in terms of foreign policy especially in terms of climate change and also this was a massive election we can learn so much from what happened lessons which can be implemented in the UK or wherever you're watching and I have two big hitters today later in the show I'll be joined by my colleague Aaron bastani for the first part of the show I'm joined by CEO and editorinchief of Zeto medy Hassan medy thank you so much for joining us again on thear media good to see you Michael as I say you've had a couple of days to absorb what's happened this is fairly momentous it can seem sort of ordinary of course Trump won you know it's he's a bit rude but what can you do looking at this in historic perspective this is a big deal right we shouldn't really underplay what's just happened it's huge and most people did not see it coming including I assume the Trump campaign it's not that he won but he's won a landsliding Electoral College he won the popular vote uh which he's never done before and in fact no Republican with the exception of George W Bush in 2004 as pulled off since 1988 uh so Republicans have not been very good at winning the popular vote they've always been considered to be a kind of minority party which we never really talk about their po policies are unpopular according to every poll and yet here he is uh a disgraced ex president uh twice impeached criminally convicted found liable for sexual abuse closed his campaign uh talking about people eating cats and dogs and Arnold Palmer's penis and wins a majority uh of the popular vote and in the Electoral College it's it's Earth chattering just in terms of the result itself and what it says about campaigning messaging uh political news media lot of things to learn about that but also what's going to happen now the impact on the United States ...