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Paul Walter

US election results are a huge relief – but it’s still the economy stupid

By Paul Walter | Wed 5th November 2025 - 5:32 pm

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One of the strange things about US democracy (and there are many – as there are in the UK) is that when a party is defeated in a Presidential election it immediately ceases to have a recognised leader and wanders through the political wilderness like thousands of headless chickens.

No party has better demonstrated the above more than the Democratic party since the morning of November 6th 2024. They seem to have gone through a soul-searching exercise that has come up with very little in the way of answers as to why they lost, for a second time, to Trump.

So it was a great relief to see the US election results coming through today.

As Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told MSNBC:

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