But it could also mean other European Union countries line up to leave. “It tends to be more of an urban-rural thing in the US, while in England it’s one city that tends to operate in a different economic world”.
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The “leave” vote was widely seen as a backlash against a recent influx of legal immigrants to the U.K. In the USA race, Trump dominated the Republican presidential field after he pledged to build a wall on America’s southern border as a way to reduce illegal immigration.
Trump, say her aides, reacted with “pathological self-congratulations”, a lack of understanding about the situation and a focus on his own businesses rather than the economic impact on American families.
Plus, Chishti said, the USA elections are not determined by popular vote.
They’re also likely having a crisis of conscience in attempting to support Donald Trump, a billionaire businessman who, in many ways, represents everything that’s morally abhorrent in our culture.
President Obama and Hillary did not want Brexit to pass. They truly do not approve of people desiring independence.
Most American voters in November will cast a ballot for one of two major party candidates.
Members of a Democratic National Convention drafting committee were reviewing the document during a meeting in St. Louis.
“It’s nearly as if he’s real and the people in the past were cartoon characters”, added Cherie Spena, 48, a hair stylist who said she hadn’t yet decided whom to support.
The “Brexit” – the United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union – was a validation of the populist frustration Trump is tapping into here in the United States.
Both the “leave” campaign and Trump’s presidential bid have been powered in large part by concerns over mass immigration.
“We want to send a message of solidarity to movements like Black Lives Matter that we are united in opposition”, Shafi told AFP.
Trump’s news conference on the green of the course’s 9th hole underscored the frequent co-mingling Trump’s campaign with his businesses.
“And so lots of folks want to turn the clock back and make America, or their country, great again”.
Yet the parallels between the forces that drove the British vote and those at the core of Trump’s campaign are striking.
British Prime Minister David Cameron, who said after the vote he could step down by October, presents a cautionary lesson for Clinton as she prepares to face Trump.
In Scotland on Friday for the re-opening of his historic golf course in Turnberry, Trump praised the results and said that the British had reasserted control over their politics, their borders and economy.
Other Democrats, openly anxious, warned that the party should not underestimate the willingness of angry American voters to choose a more uncertain path in November and side with Trump.
When asked about Brexit, Mr Trump said: “I think the people had to make a decision, they made the decision I thought they would and long term I think they will be happy”. USA presidential candidate Donald Trump chats with the watching media aboard a golf cart with granddaughter Kai after he arrived at the Trump International Golf Links at Balmedie, near Aberdeen, Scotland, Saturday June 25, …
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Trump quickly dispensed with a protester who emerged from the audience to hold up a package of red golf balls emblazoned with Nazi swastikas.
