Donald Trump has a path to victory. As a new poll put him 1 per cent ahead of Clinton, Asian markets wobbled and currency traders began selling the dollar. North Korea is planning to launch another ballistic missile within the coming days, presumably as Kim Jong Un enjoys his final hours as the world’s top international menace before the Don gets his eerily small hands on the nuclear football.

Even if Hillary grinds out the win, the US presidential elections have been an unedifying end to an unedifying year of politics. Whichever candidate is sworn in, after this season of campaigning they are unlikely to make it to two terms in office. Either President Trump or the second President Clinton will be one-term wonders.