You know that events with probability less than 1.8% are happening all the time, right? The probability of dying in a car crash is way less than 1% and still s

You know that events with probability less than 1.8% are happening all the time, right? The probability of dying in a car crash is way less than 1% and still some people are unlucky enough to die in this way every day. It's a matter of sample size. In the same way, the vast majority of the time a candidate with a very slim chance won't make it to presidency, but it happened that Trump did.