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New documentaries tackle the question: How did Trump win?

When Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, his victory stunned millions. For months, nearly every prognosticator and major media outlet predicted that Hillary Clinton would easily win the election. And yet Trump - the man best known to many as the host of the reality show "The Apprentice" - had beaten the odds.

"It was a very dark day when those election returns came in," said filmmaker Errol Morris. "For me, it represented a disaster on so many levels. I had most certainly feared the possibility of Donald Trump being elected, and my worst fears were realized."

Morris, an Academy-Award winning documentarian behind films like "The Thin Blue Line," was not the only one of his peers who felt that way, which is why nearly two years after Trump's

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