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"Donald Trump has defied all expectations from the very start of his presidential campaign more than a year ago.
 
Very few people thought he would actually run, then he did. They thought he wouldn't climb in the polls, then he did. They said he wouldn't win any primaries, then he did. They said he wouldn't win the
Republican nomination, then he did.
 
Finally, they said there was no way he could compete for, let alone win, a general election.
 
Now he's president-elect Trump.
Here are five ways he pulled off what was unexpected by most and incomprehensible to many."
 
Number five was interesting: Trusted his instincts


<div>Mr Trump ran the most unconventional of political campaigns, but it turned out he knew better than all the experts.
 
He spent more on hats than on pollsters. He travelled to states like Wisconsin and Michigan that pundits said were out of reach.
 
He held massive rallies instead of focusing on door-knocking and get-out-the-vote operations.
 
He had a disjointed, sometimes chaotic national political convention that was capped by an acceptance speech that was more doom-and-gloom than any in modern US political history.
 
He was vastly outspent by the Clinton campaign, just as he was during the Republican primaries. He turned consensus wisdom about how to win the presidency on its head.
 
All of these decisions - and many more - were roundly ridiculed in "knowledgeable" circles.
 
In the end, however, they worked. Mr Trump and his closest confidants - his children and a few chosen advisers - will have the last laugh. And they'll do it from the White House.
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It will be interesting to see how his instincts and unconventional way of doing things play into his running of a country.

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