Brits say if Donald Trump will be a good president - and the result is very convincing

Poll after poll of US voters showed Trump and Harris neck and neck, but things were a little more clear cut on this side of the pond according to the results of a YouGov poll

Donald Trump swept to victory in the race for the White House yesterday, beating rival Kamala Harris after weeks of the two being neck-and-neck the US polls.

Poll after poll of US voters showed hardly a percentage point between the two candidates in the run-up to yesterday’s election. In the event, despite the close polls Trump’s victory was decisive and has been touted as one of the biggest political comebacks in American history.

The polls on this side of the pond are a little more decisive however, with opinions of Trump firmly in the negative. A YouGov poll taken shortly before US citizens headed to the voting booths asked Europeans who they thought would make a good president.

The poll asked residents is seven European countries “If Donald Trump becomes the next president of the USA, do you think he would be:

1. A terrible president
2. A poor president
3. An average president
4. Don’t know
5. A good president
6. A great president

Perhaps unsurprisingly the largest answer by far was that he would make a “terrible” president, with people in Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Britain, Spain, France and Italy in agreement.

Of the Brits asked for the poll, 57% of them said Trump would be terrible, while another 12% said he would be “poor” at the job. 14% of people said he would be “average” while just 7% said “don’t know” to the question. Meanwhile 10% of those asked thought he would be “good” and 4% said they thought he would be a “great” president.

The outcomes were broadly similar across the different countries, Matthew Smith head YouGov’s head of data journalism, said. “The Danes are the most likely to want Harris to win, at 81%, while Italians are the least likely to, at 46% - although this still significantly outnumbers the Italian Trump vote (24%),” he explained.

“Here in Britain, 61% say they want the Democratic candidate to triumph, compared to 16% for her Republican rival.”

The poll, published November 1, was taken several days before the election took place in the US and also asked Europeans who they thought was more likely to win. “When it comes to who Western Europeans think will win, the general expectation in each country is again that it will be Harris, ranging from 43% in Italy to 61% in Germany,” Mr Smith wrote. Meaning many in Europe will have woken up to an unwelcome surprise yesterday morning when they learned of Trump’s victory.

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