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Voices: Wake up, Britain! A second Trump presidency is now a very real possibility – and it could ruin us

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It was like watching a horse race between two old nags that ought to have been dispatched to the knacker’s yard – and one where the only hope for excitement was waiting for one of them to collapse, to be replaced by some younger, more vigorous steed.

Yielding no surprises about who will be picked for the race to the White House, the bumper “Super Tuesday” primary results might have been better termed “superfluous Tuesday”. Bar a retirement through ill-health (not impossible, but unlikely), Joe Biden and Donald Trump will be the runners in November.

On this side of the Atlantic, we should pay less attention to such political horseplay, and rather more to what happens if Trump gets elected. He seems to have the more momentum, having improbably jumped

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