2016 is the election that will never end - By Dan Balz

By Dan Balz Chief correspondent November 4 at 12:29 PM

A full year has passed since Donald Trump was elected president, yet the campaign of 2016 will not end. The president remains obsessed with it, Democrats are still wrangling over a bitter primary contest and a shocking loss in the general election, and analysts are still trying to understand better exactly how it all happened.

The public has not moved on either. The divisions that produced the outcome on Nov. 8 remain as deep and pervasive as they were then. Views of the president, pro and con, have changed only a bit among the most partisan.

Trump has problems galore that should occupy his time, as his trip to Asia that began Friday will highlight. But in so many of his public utterances and especially his tweets, he refuses to let go of the campaign. At rallies, he has replayed his victories as if they happened yesterday. He demands respect for what he accomplished and doesn’t believe he’s gotten it. He’s still trying to score points against his rival, hammering on Hillary Clinton as if the election is in its last few days.

Clinton, however, is mostly a foil as Trump seeks to distract attention from special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation, which has worried the president since it began.

His tactic isn’t working.

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