The Observer view on US election: lessons for the left in wake of damning defeat

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : Trump scored an undeniable nationwide triumph, winning both the electoral college and the popular vote.
62% : Black, Latino, Native American and younger voters, on whose support his Democratic rival, the vice-president, Kamala Harris, had pinned her hopes, also went for Trump in larger than anticipated numbers.
62% : "America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate," Trump claimed - and this prospect is truly daunting.
58% : Trump understood this.
51% : Right now, Trump is in the pink.
31% : Trump said he would fight for them - and enough of them believed him.
30% : Likewise, Harris's belief that support for abortion rights, while laudable, could be used as a decisive wedge issue to attract female voters was confounded by the 45% of women who backed Trump.
30% : As we have said before, Trump is unfit to hold the office to which he has just been re-elected.
20% : He was, Trump said, "mad as hell".

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