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Cooper: Putting the shine back on U.S.

Believe it or not, winning the election may not be the biggest challenge for Republican Donald J. Trump.

Getting his agenda past Congress – albeit one controlled by members of his party – may be.

Nevertheless, because of perhaps the biggest upset in the history of United States presidential elections Tuesday, Trump will have that chance.

Certainly, the election of the New York businessman was a message of repudiation of the last eight years of a divisive administration that governed against the will of the people. The question going forward is how much of the agenda Trump set forth in his campaign can be enacted.

– Will he build a wall on the country’s Southern border and force Mexico to pay for it?