Facing up to four more years of Trump
I was at one with the "wailing shell-shocked" on election night, even as The Mail called us losers.
Waking up on Wednesday morning after three hours’ sleep, the voice of the president-elect boomed from the radio. Oh no, not him, not four more years.
Donald Trump’s crushing victory had been on the cards when I’d turned in around 4 am, but with most of the swing states still in contention, there was a glimmer of hope.
It was not to be. Kamala Harris had lost badly and those of us who hoped to see the first female president, and the back of Trump, had to accept: we were on the wrong side of history.
The headlines told us so. "US voters may have just saved the West"; "Donald Trump’s win marks the beginning of the end of the Ukraine war"; "How Trump could temper tensions in the Middle East"; "Britain could be an unexpected winner from America’s vote".