Been reading an awful lot about how this vote hurts Obama, makes him look bad... doesn't help Hillary... and many articles about how this somehow helps Trump. I hope so!!

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WASHINGTON

The 2016 race for the White House has weathered more shocks than an old pickup truck bumping along a pothole-covered road.

Now there’s Brexit, Britain’s stunning decision this week to bolt from the European Union, and possibly another jolt in America’s journey to the November election.

Political seismographs were busy Friday measuring the shock waves on this side of the Atlantic.

Does it help real-estate mogul Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, whose nativist, anti-immigration, anti-trade-deals campaign has channeled a similar current of anger among a large swath of Republican voters?

Or does former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic standard-bearer, benefit, given her foreign policy résumé at a time when the global order could come under increasing strain?

“What you’re watching right now is how candidates deal with it,” said Republican pollster David Winston. “Are they going to address the concerns, or have a traditional discourse of attacking their opponents?”

From the White House to the candidates, from pollsters to diplomats, there was a sense of the synergy between the forces that passed the referendum that rocked British politics and those that have commandeered the U.S. presidential race.

It’s a fair question to ask whether American voters are paying any attention to the turmoil across 3,500 miles of ocean. Do they care whether or not their English counterparts want to play nice with their European “neighbours” on economic, security, justice and foreign policy issues?

Democratic pollster Mark Mellman said that issues like immigration, jobs and the economy are, indeed, important to American voters. Still, he said, “I think among elites, everybody will be sitting at dinner tonight discussing Brexit. But if you look at the average American family having dinner, I don’t think they’ll be discussing Brexit.”

While there is a wait-and-see attitude about the fallout, the vote had an immediate and powerful impact. British Prime Minister and chief anti-Brexit cheerleader David Cameron said he would step down.

The victory fed on fears about a host of concerns: the loss of jobs, trade agreements, immigration, security, unresponsive leaders and of powerful elites controlling the lives of the people – in Britain’s case, at EU headquarters in Brussels across the English Channel.

“This is as much about disillusionment with the political status quo, with inequalities, with a sense that politicians say anything to get elected and then don’t do what they’re supposed to do, and a continuing sense – certainly in America – in Britain ... that it’s been the hardworking, tax-paying middle classes who don’t feel listened to, or that their interests have been sufficiently taken into account,” Sir Peter Westmacott, former British ambassador to the United States, said on a media call Friday arranged by the Atlantic Council, a foreign policy think tank.

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The Brexit vote also helps Donald Trump

The shocking vote by citizens of Great Britain to leave the European Union had an immediate impact on the U.S. presidential race, with Donald Trump hailing the result as a triumph of nationalism and Hillary Clinton warning of the risks it posed to global economic security.

In Scotland to visit one of his golf courses, Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, used the vote as vindication for his own platform of robust nationalism and an immigration crackdown.

"Basically, they took back their country, that's a great thing," Trump said. "They're angry over borders. They're angry over people coming into the country and taking over, and nobody even knows who they are."

Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, used the surprise outcome to argue for a steady hand in the White House. "This time of uncertainty only underscores the need for calm, steady, experienced leadership in the White House to protect Americans' pocketbooks and livelihoods, to support our friends and allies, to stand up to our adversaries, and to defend our interests," she said in a statement. "It also underscores the need for us to pull together to solve our challenges as a country, not tear each other down."

But the U.K. vote is clearly a win for Trump and a warning to Clinton about the level of global economic anger, resentment of elite globalists and fear over the impact of immigration, especially from the war-ravaged Middle East.

Polls and betting markets in the U.K. leading up to the Brexit vote suggested that the Remain side would win fairly comfortably. A large YouGov survey of Brexit voters conducted after they went to the polls had Remain winning 52 percent-48 percent. The result seemed so certain that chief Leave advocate Nigel Farage, head of the U.K. Independence Party, appeared to essentially concede defeat early in the night.

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