There's quite a lot of rhetoric that appears to have been imported from the USA, and it's not just here.
It's quite worrying, we're watching a global trend away from democracy towards fascism, and half our electorates are cheering it on because it's "their team" doing it.
It's conceivable for the result to change yet again with the recounts and by-election. National could conceivably gain three more seats through that.