Can Trump do a 'Dewey defeats Truman' (2020 edition)?
But the Trumpists are learning now that the populist surge is fizzling and they could be making the same mistake the Clintonites made in 2016.
FOUR years ago, after Americans - contrary to pollsters' predictions about a Hillary Clinton victory - stunned the world by electing Donald Trump as president, I could still comfort myself that I had been able literally at the last moment to save my reputation as a political forecaster.
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