BY DAVID GOLDSTEIN
The 2016 race for the White House has weathered more shocks than an old pickup truck bumping along a pothole-covered road.
Now there’s Brexit, Britain’s stunning decision this week to bolt from the European Union, and possibly another jolt in America’s journey to the November election.
Political seismographs were busy Friday measuring the shock waves on this side of the Atlantic.
Does it help real-estate mogul Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, whose nativist, anti-immigration, anti-trade-deals campaign has channeled a similar current of anger among a large swath of Republican voters?
Or does former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic standard-bearer, benefit, given her foreign policy résumé at a time when the global order could come under increasing strain?
“What you’re watching right now is how candidates deal with it,” said Republican pollster David Winston. “Are they going to address the concerns, or have a traditional discourse of attacking their opponents?”
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Last month I saw a mitual fund manager on CNBC talking about the election. He talked about how the markets liked continuity and Clinton would be good for investments. He said that Trump was unclear and untested and would probably bri g instability to the investment market. Candidates do not control the market but expectations do.
Now look at what the Brexit voters did. Uncertainty does not begin to describe the uncertainty thay they have ushered in.
The big win was attributed to older, white, lower income voters. Younger Brits are very upset with the result.
Donald Trump has a similar fan base. The difference is that the older white male voting group that make up Trump’s supporters is a much smaller percentage of our registered voters. They do not have the numbers to get him elected.
After seeing what happened in Britain we will probably have High voter turnout. We will have witnessed the fallout of this vote. They will see the disaster and know that xenophobia is not a rational plan for the future.
yuup Racist ,bigot, homophobes you covered all the bases lol
Actually, it was younger Brits that wanted the exit.Globalization may occur, but it won;t be a smooth path.
don’t forget old and stupid… they covered those as well.