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President-elect Donald Trump won because people in the U.S. believe he will be better than the Democrats at improving the country’s economic conditions, writes Les Whittington. Screenshot courtesy of CSPAN

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

November 20, 2024

OTTAWA—There’s a lot of debate about why Donald Trump won the United States presidential election, but one lesson from the contest of importance to Canadians is incontrovertible: whatever the election was about, it wasn’t policy and facts.

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