The funny thing is Trump didn’t beat the odds... the odds makers didn’t understand/refused to see what was going on.
Odds were in Trump’s favor from the start.
The access Hollywood tape was the ONLY reason the election wound up close. Without that tape Trump gets NH, MN, NV without any question and probably all of ME as well to say the least. Hell if the election were just a few days later he would have likely taken all of those. Without that tape he would have taken states no one would have believed.
The odds were with Trump the entire time, the political press Which the odd makers based their odds on were never able or willing to tell the truth.
Hillary was always the longer shot in the 2016 election
If the GOP had run another one of their typical moderate losers, she would have won.