The rumor is that Ivanka Trump was the one who, during election night, came in and told her father that he was pulling ahead in the presidential race. His response, “What do you mean I'm ahead?” is something I made up, but it has a strong ring of truth to it. At the outset of the evening the polls and the TV commentators were ready to crown Hillary Clinton, but as the night dragged on something else happened.
It is likely that on announcing his candidacy Donald Trump didn't actually believe he could win the election. His whole campaign was an improbable ego trip from the start and he probably surprised himself when he got traction with voters. Being the opportunist that he is, once he discovered the magic formula he kept hammering it into the public's psyche. That formula was: an unscripted billionaire political outsider who stumbled onto populist and nationalist themes that resonated with his supporters. And it resonated with an ego as big as Mt. Rushmore.
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