Anushka Asthana is joined by Gary Younge, Randeep Ramesh, Hannah Peaker and Mona Chalabi to discuss the election of Donald Trump as 45th president of the United States. As reaction pours in from around the world, we look at what powers he’ll have and why the polls got it so wrong

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Against all the odds, in the face of huge opposition from his own party, Donald Trump has been elected America’s 45th president.

How did it happen? What does it mean? What powers will he actually have? And how did the polls get it so wrong?

Joining Anushka Asthana are Gary Younge in Indiana, chief leader writer Randeep Ramesh and Hannah Peaker of the Women’s Equality Party.

Also this week: Mona Chalabi, our US data editor on the inquest now taking place into the polling industry.



And Alice Rink, a producer on American Honey, a road movie based in white working class US heartlands, explains how US political culture developed in a way where so many people could vote for a man such as Trump.

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