Brexit vote is good news for Trump - or maybe not

More ethnically and culturally diverse American voters and complex electoral system make it tougher for the populist revolution and nationalist tide to influence the US presidential race

Published Mon, Jun 27, 2016 · 09:50 PM

Brexit

Washington

BEFORE presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald J Trump arrived in Scotland last Friday, he tweeted that the Scots were "going wild" in the aftermath of the decision by the United Kingdom (UK) to leave the European Union (EU), congratulating them for "taking their country back, just like we will take America".

Mr Trump, whose mother was born in Scotland, actually got his facts wrong (as he quite often does).

While the UK as a whole voted to leave the EU, by a margin of 52 per cent to 48 per cent, Scotland voted in favour of staying in the EU, by 62 per cent to 38 per cent. Similarly, the majority of voters in Northern Ireland voted in support of remaining in the EU. In fact, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, said following the referendum that it was "democratically unacceptable" that Scot…

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