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🗓️ 4 November 2017
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Donald Trump celebrated a remarkable Presidential election victory a year ago on 8 November 2016. Anthony Zurcher revisits that dramatic night – and asks could he do it again in 2020?
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0:18.0 | Let us know what you think. |
0:20.4 | And if you want, I'll give you a little recap of the night should I or not now are you sure? |
0:25.0 | Do you remember the night Donald Trump was elected that momentous night 8 November 2016? |
0:31.0 | Good evening and welcome to election night 2016. |
0:34.6 | What a crazy campaign this has been. |
0:37.0 | I'm Anthony Zerker on the BBC World Service and this is Trump re-elected. |
0:42.1 | We'll be reenacting that night and looking ahead to 2020 to see if |
0:46.2 | President Trump can win another four years in office. |
0:49.3 | And in four years we're going to win it by even more. |
0:58.4 | My 8th of November night started at Hillary Clinton's campaign headquarters where crowds were gathering to witness what they thought would be |
1:02.3 | a night that would change America. |
1:05.0 | It was, but not as they imagined. |
1:07.0 | Well, you know, I'm normally a glass half empty kind of guy. |
1:13.2 | Jim Margolis was a senior campaign consultant in Clinton's war room on election night. |
1:18.4 | I'm always thinking we're never going to make it, even in 2012 in that race with President Obama. |
1:25.1 | I was always nervous. |
1:26.7 | This was the first big presidential campaign, |
1:30.2 | and I've been involved in a lot of them, |
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