Clinton and Trump are using the UK’s Brexit mess to their advantage

It’s the same kind of feeling that Donald Trump has seized on to become the presumptive Republican nominee in the United States.

But in a statement to CBS News, Trump’s spokeswoman, Hope Hicks, said, “The position stated today is consistent with his speech two weeks ago”.

Despite a shakeup in world markets caused by the United Kingdom referendum and a plummeting of the value of the British pound, Trump in a trip to his golf course in Scotland Saturday said the Brexit wouldn’t mean much for Americans. After a gunman killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, Trump called for a complete immigration ban from countries with a history of terrorism against the United States. According to a Washington Post report, Trump now only wants to ban Muslims from countries with heavy terrorism. They also said the order had come from the highest authority. “I don’t want people coming in from the terror countries”.

Trump said Barack Obama’s intervention in the European Union referendum campaign, when the president warned that Britain would be back of the queue for a trade deal with the USA, was “negative”, and promised to prioritise the country in a future deal. In December of past year, the business tycoon angered liberals and conservatives alike after suggesting barring all Muslims from entering the United States. But even if the piece of the US electorate that rates its desire for Trump’s brand of border security as their top priority outpaces those who prefer Hillary Clinton, there are a multitude of unrelated issues that will likely drive their decisions. When a reporter asked him about Texas’ talk of secession, Trump responded by saying “Texas will never do that because Texas loves me”.

Some of his colleagues surmised that this was because Trump called MacAskill “nasty” on Friday. At the time, it appeared that Trump was expanding his ban to include more people, not limiting its scope.

That said, in this technology age of sound-bite headlines and 30-second attention spans, Mrs Clinton is going to have to go back to the drawing board to find an Obamaesque “Yes We Can!” message with a punch that can compete with the emotional sloganeering of Mr Trump’s “Make America Great Again”.

Brexit’s surprise victory left the Obama administration scrambling to put the best face on an outcome it didn’t want. So while victory in, say, Ohio, by one vote or 1 million, could decide the race, simply winning the popular vote nationwide won’t be enough to carry Trump or Clinton to victory. “And you see it with Europe, all over Europe, you’re going to have more than just, in my opinion, more than just what happened last night”.

He later said he would support Scottish independence in the event of another referendum.

But American comedian Aziz Anzari, whose family is Muslim, condemned Trump in an op-ed published in The New York Times Friday. “A lot of people – a lot of people thought that was the decision they’d make”.