Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

Fears and Hopes for a President Trump

The Democrats are powerless. Will Republicans stand up to him?

November 9, 2016 at 7:43 AM UTC

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

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Yes, Donald Trump has been elected as the 45th president of the United States.

First off, the polls were wrong -- not by a huge amount, but by about 3 percent or so (we won't have the final figure until votes from California and other mail-in states, most of which lean strongly to the Democrats, are counted over the next several days). And, yes, a lot of pundits and prognosticators and insiders were wrong, too.1478672830774