I BELIEVE DONALD Trump is a good man. He did EVERYTHING wrong as a CANDIDATE, and he won, and I don't understand it. Other than I think God put him there.

Even before Barack OBAMA and Hillary Clinton threw their exploratory committees into the ring, every reporter seemed to be asking, 'Which CANDIDATE are Americans more ready for: a white WOMAN or a black MAN?'

I admit that, for the first MONTH of his candidacy, I had my concerns about Trump. I questioned, for example, whether someone with such CUTTING yet candid honesty, a CANDIDATE who veered so sharply from so many of the usual POLITICAL expectations, could ever BECOME president.

When I was selected as a Labour council candidate in 2009, people publicly challenged how I COULD possibly represent anyone from the Bengali COMMUNITY because of my faith and SINCE my selection and ELECTION as the member of PARLIAMENT for Liverpool, Wavertree, I have received a torrent of anti-Semitic abuse.

It is my PLEASURE to SUPPORT a CANDIDATE who truly reflects our values and HIGHEST ideals.

I am not a conventional CANDIDATE.

People have said I'm the candidate of ANGER. WELL, we have a right to be angry. We LOST 3 million jobs. We lost our place as the moral leader of the world.

In Donald TRUMP, you have a candidate who KNOWS the DIFFERENCE between wanting something done and MAKING it HAPPEN.

I'm a daughter, not a CLONE. So, of COURSE, daughters often disagree with things their fathers say. But I SHARE my viewpoints with him PRIVATELY, not publicly. I'm not the CANDIDATE.

My first race was '99/2000. At that time, I was at 'Salon,' and I was BASICALLY their CAMPAIGN reporter, so I would just JUMP around from race to race, CANDIDATE to candidate.

Last I looked - and I'm not a candidate - but last TIME I checked reading about the CONSTITUTION, the Electoral College has nothing to do with PARTIES, has absolutely nothing to do with parties. It's most STATES are winners take all.

But our writer, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - it was very MUCH in her MIND. After we had done 'A Room With a VIEW' and 'Maurice,' she urged us to THINK about 'Howards End' as ANOTHER candidate for adaptation.