One month to go: Biden vs Trump

When I spoke to my sister in Newcastle earlier today, she told me that all she’d heard about the US election was that: “Biden is a hero and Trump has just accepted his fate.” I wasn’t surprised. 

Last week, at an Independent Premium event, one questioner asked if  “history is due to repeat itself” from 2016 with another “shock win” for Trump. And most people I know in Britain think America won’t vote in Trump again because “surely they realise” how bad he makes them look on the world stage.

Back in 2016, I was one of those people who also thought it was impossible for a reality TV star with no political experience to ascend to the Oval Office. I was so confident about that fact that I wrote my weekly column – due the morning of the US election result – well in advance, praising the US for electing a female president and looking optimistically forward to what great strides Hillary Clinton might make for the country over the following four years.