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The Washington Post, external reports that it’s not as if Americans did not have grave doubts about Donald Trump.

But many voters were so angry or so dissatisfied that enough of them in key states swallowed those doubts and voted for him anyway, the paper says.

And without any question, white male voters rejected Hillary Clinton and embraced the man who repeatedly violated widely accepted norms about how men should treat women. On Election Day, white identity politics and male self-assertion triumphed over many of the judgments that Americans usually make when they choose a president.

Much was made throughout the campaign about Trump’s strength among white working class voters, and they supported him in droves. Among whites who did not graduate from college, Trump led Clinton by a margin of about 5-to-2, according to preliminary exit poll data. White college graduates gave Trump only a narrow lead.

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Speaking in December 2015 at a time when she was home secretary, current UK Prime Minister Theresa May said: "I think we all agree that the comments Donald Trump made in relation to Muslims were divisive, unhelpful and wrong."

"In relation to the question of banning individuals from the UK, given the role I play in making those decisions, I don't comment on individual cases. The decision on whether to ban anyone from the UK is made by the home secretary on the basis of the evidence at the time."

"I think it was nonsense to say there are parts of the UK where the British police do not feel able to go or not willing to go. I think our police do an an excellent job, day in and day out, working to keep us safe. I just think it shows he does not understand the UK and what happens in the UK."

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America's neighbours to the north fear how trade and diplomacy will fare in a Trump presidency.

Back in the days when he was prime minister, David Cameron responded to comments about Muslims made by Donald Trump in December 2015. 

“I think his remarks are divisive, stupid and wrong and I think if he came to visit our country I think he'd unite us all against him," Mr Cameron said at Prime Minister's Questions.

"The idea that you would build a wall between the US and Mexico and say Mexico has to pay for it... what kind of behaviour and what kind of attitude is that? That in addition to the many other strange, very old fashioned social attitudes he seems to be so keen on."

Asked if Donald Trump was dangerous, Mr Corbyn said: "I've never had the chance to meet him.... I'm alarmed and appalled at what he said about Muslims in the US and what he said about social conditions there. He plays to an audience which feels very angry at the way the political establishment has treated it - and he doesn't actually offer any solutions apart from a blame culture."

Also asked for his response to the comparison some commentators have made between Corbyn and Trump as examples of the rise of populism, Corbyn called it a "very very strange comparison". He said "I don't think Trump and I have much in common on anything." 

The historian Simon Schama fears that a Donald Trump presidency may lend itself to a form of fascism.

He told the Today programme Donald Trump's "campaign of fanatical prejudice has triumphed" and will cause "massive, possibly irreversible damage to American free institutions".

The Republican candidate edges closer to the presidency after a string of shock swing state victories.