Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Cassandra

[F]or one reporter, Daniel Dale of the Toronto Star, the race for the White House was singularly burdensome, turning him into a night owl.

At the end of each long day on the campaign trail, he would take a deep breath and launch into his second job: fact-checking the lies of Donald Trump.

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After each of the three televised debates between Trump and Hillary Clinton, and in the final frantic days of the campaign, he pulled all-nighters before going straight back to his day job.

“Towards the end it was crazy,” Dale says. “The only thing that made it easier was that Trump repeated himself: we called him out for lying but he was so unresponsive he just kept saying the same things.”

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From 15 September until 8 November, Dale recorded a total of 560 false Trump statements, an average of about 20 a day. As the sleep-deprived reporter staggered into election day, he reflected that if his nighttime activities had reached even a small percentage of the American electorate, and helped them understand the fundamental mendacity of a candidate seeking the most powerful job on the planet, then “it would have been worth it”.

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53% of white women voted for Trump, according to exit polls.

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[A]lmost one in three Hispanics backed him

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[S]ome 61 million Americans were unfazed enough by the idea of a serial liar in the Oval Office to vote for him.

  Guardian
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