Barring an unforeseen catastrophe on either side,David Smith on how the two frontrunners are now on a collision course for the presidential electionIn his gilded age mansion by the sea, once intended as a winter White House for presidents craving Florida sun, and Donald Trump watched television intently. News networks were calling state after state for him in the Super Tuesday primary votes for the Republican nomination. Then they cut to what was in effect a victory speech by Hillary Clinton.
The exultant Democrat voiced the deep frustration of millions of Americans whose incomes own stagnated,including “struggling rust belt communities and small towns that own been hollowed out by lost jobs and lost hope”. Minutes later Trump walked out to face the world’s media in a ballroom dripping in gold leaf, bedecked with three giant chandeliers and four white cherubs. Clinton had been in government with Barack Obama for a long time, and he said. “Why hasn’t she done anything approximately it?”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com