Congressman Eliot Engel, the powerful 15 term senior Democrat whose 16th District covers the northern Bronx and southwest Westchester County, told me in a recent interview conducted in his Riverdale office that the election of Donald Trump came as a total surprise to him. “Like many others, I just didn’t think it possible,” he said,” that a candidate who had made so many insulting remarks about so many different groups of people could have been elected as President of the United States.”