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		</div><p>The UK&#8217;s stunning vote to leave the European Union has sent political tremors across the Atlantic, with Donald Trump hoping that frustrated US voters will back similarly sweeping change.</p>
<p>The result has also rattled Democrats, who are banking on Americans ultimately choosing a more conventional leader in Hillary Clinton this autumn.</p>
<p>The parallels between the forces that drove the British vote and those at the core of Mr Trump&#8217;s campaign are striking.</p>
<p>Among them is a belief that globalisation is hurting the working classes, and increased immigration is changing the country&#8217;s character.</p>
<p>In both the US and UK, there is strong resentment of political elites who often appear to have little connection to the voters they are supposed to represent.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think there are great similarities between what happened here and my campaign,&#8221; Mr Trump said from Scotland, where he was attending the opening of one of his golf courses.</p>
<p>&#8220;People want to see borders. They don&#8217;t necessarily want people pouring into their country that they don&#8217;t know who they are and where they come from.&#8221;</p>
<p>In the US, presumptive Democratic nominee Mrs Clinton cast the economic uncertainty which followed the Brexit vote as a reason America needs &#8220;calm, steady, experienced leadership&#8221; in the Oval Office &#8211; a knock on her often unpredictable and politically inexperienced Republican rival.</p>
<p>Mrs Clinton&#8217;s aides also highlighted Trump&#8217;s assertion on Friday that a weaker pound would make his Scottish golf course more attractive to visitors.</p>
<p>&#8220;Donald Trump actively rooted for this outcome and he&#8217;s rooting for the economic turmoil in its wake,&#8221; said Jake Sullivan, Clinton&#8217;s senior policy adviser.</p>
<p>Other Democrats, openly anxious, warned that the party should not underestimate the willingness of angry American voters to choose a more uncertain path in November and side with Mr Trump.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a timely big splash of cold water in the face of Democrats,&#8221; said Ron Kirk, the former Democratic mayor of Dallas and US trade representative for president Barack Obama.</p>
<figure id="attachment_85790" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-85790" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/hillaryClintonHeatedPoints_large.jpg"><img src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/hillaryClintonHeatedPoints_large.jpg" alt="Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton" width="600" height="325" class="size-full wp-image-85790" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-85790" class="wp-caption-text">Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton</figcaption></figure>
<p>Democratic operative Lynda Tran said that if US voters are indeed seeking a broad political overhaul in November, Mrs Clinton will be &#8220;at a major disadvantage&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;Having spent the last three decades of her life in public service, in the public eye and being a core part of the policies and the administrations that have brought us to where we are right now, it&#8217;s very difficult for her to grab the mantle of change,&#8221; Ms Tran said of the former secretary of state, senator and first lady.</p>
<p>Mr Trump is trying to rebound from one of the worst stretches of his campaign. He has struggled to raise money and build a robust organisation for the general election, and this week he shook up his operation by firing campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.</p>
<p>But for some Republicans, the outcome in Britain was a reminder that despite Mr Trump&#8217;s shortcomings, he may be the candidate most attuned to voters &#8211; something which campaign funding cannot buy.</p>
<p>&#8220;Brexit is a wakeup call for the Clinton team,&#8221; said Scott Reed, chief strategist for the US Chamber of Commerce. &#8220;The status quo won&#8217;t work this cycle.&#8221;</p>
<p>The referendum was fuelled by support from white, working class voters from outside the UK&#8217;s population centres &#8211; a similar profile to Mr Trump&#8217;s supporters. The biggest challenge for Mr Trump will be broadening his base and overcoming his negative standing with minorities and women.</p>
<p>Unlike in Britain, where the referendum was decided on the basis of a national popular vote, the American election is determined on a state-by-state basis, with many of the most politically powerful states also being the most diverse.</p>
<p>But Jerry Spaulding, a farmer from Gilmanton, New Hampshire, who plans to vote for Mr Trump in November, said he would not be surprised if the breadth of Mr Trump&#8217;s support is broader than it may look in public opinion polls.</p>
<p>&#8220;I do think you&#8217;re going to see a lot of people coming out of the woodwork, like they did in Britain,&#8221; Mr Spaulding said.</p>
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