Why Trump lost the 2020 election

Rightys are pleased when tax cuts to the wealthy happen. I do not know why. The wealth gap is obscene.
They are pleased when regulation and environmental laws are gutted. They do not realize that regulations are on the side of the people. The rich have tons of power and control. The government is what fights them. The Repubs are teaching people the government is the problem because then the wealthy get complete control. That makes sense to rightys.
Trump gave away the store because he was not interested in governing. He wanted to play golf. He wanted the power but not the job.
 
Nordberg said:
Rightys are pleased when tax cuts to the wealthy happen. I do not know why. The wealth gap is obscene.
They are pleased when regulation and environmental laws are gutted. They do not realize that regulations are on the side of the people. The rich have tons of power and control. The government is what fights them. The Repubs are teaching people the government is the problem because then the wealthy get complete control. That makes sense to rightys.
Trump gave away the store because he was not interested in governing. He wanted to play golf. He wanted the power but not the job.
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Trump wanted to be a dictator, not a president.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
True but had not Derick Chauvin killed George Floyd and had not the COVID pandemic occurred more than likely Trump would have been re-elected.

The American public is very pragmatic on national elections. They are more retrospective than prospective and are more concerned about how well a political party governs than political ideology or campaigning. Which is why many of the polls and pundits get it wrong about Presidential elections.

So Trumps being an asshole, and he is, had little impact on the election. His performance did and his last year in office was terrible by any metrics and it sunk him.
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Early on in 2020 when the pandemic first reared its ugly head, #TRE45ON knew that on some level it was going to make him look bad. That's why he downplayed it. He even stated that he didn't want to cause panic, by which he meant, of course, the stock market fall that happened almost immediately. He knew that the *only* thing on the plus side of his ledger was the economy. Many ppl think that the markets = the economy, and blame the guy at the top when they sink. So he basically fucked himself by refusing to address the pandemic in any meaningful way until it was far too late. Then attacking the governors who asked for PPE, vents, and other help -- and mocking mitigation measures and refusing to set an example by masking up -- he set the match to his own bonfire.
 
Nordberg said:
Rightys are pleased when tax cuts to the wealthy happen. I do not know why. The wealth gap is obscene.
They are pleased when regulation and environmental laws are gutted. They do not realize that regulations are on the side of the people. The rich have tons of power and control. The government is what fights them. The Repubs are teaching people the government is the problem because then the wealthy get complete control. That makes sense to rightys.
Trump gave away the store because he was not interested in governing. He wanted to play golf. He wanted the power but not the job.
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In their hearts RWers worship authority, royalty, monarchy, plutocrats, oligarchy, and even at times dictators. They see these things as indicating power and strength. Somehow they never seem to have left that stage of childhood where the big strong looming dad figure means safety. That's what they want -- safety. Thinking for yourself, taking risks on things that we've never done before -- those are not for them.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
In their hearts RWers worship authority, royalty, monarchy, plutocrats, oligarchy, and even at times dictators. They see these things as indicating power and strength. Somehow they never seem to have left that stage of childhood where the big strong looming dad figure means safety. That's what they want -- safety. Thinking for yourself, taking risks on things that we've never done before -- those are not for them.
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They are authoritarians who fear democracy.
 
 
 
Mott the Hoople said:
No. Trump wouldn’t have stood a chance with centrist. Trump was well entrenched as a demagogue. Demagogues don’t historically do well with centrist or the political classes in general. Their appeal is to the unwashed masses.

Trump lost because he had two important metrics go against him. He failed on maintaining civil order after the death of George Floyd. He also failed on a natural disaster, the COVID epidemic.

If Trump had won both of those metrics, Civil Order and Natural Disaster, he would have won.

Had he just won one of those metrics he still might have won.

Losing both put Biden over the hump. That they were both random events that happened in his last year in office.

Just goes to show you how historical events can change things.
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Agree w/ this.

Conservatives love to point to Trump's economy pre-COVID - but how you respond to a crisis is one of the top criteria we have for a chief executive. And he failed.

Lots of people can be effective Presidents when things are going smooth & there are no challenges. Trump failed at the only crisis situations that he faced.
 
redfish said:
Trump did win the 2020 election. But was not president because of successful coup of the US government was pulled off by the democrats, the media, and China. Wake up america, your country was stolen from you and an illegal administration is now ruining your great country.
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The only reason people think the election was rigged is because a pathological liar said so. He said the same in 2016, also.

Trump lost, by a lot.
 
PostmodernProphet said:
/shrugs.......because Biden was awarded 44,000 more votes in three states (WI, PA, and GA)......courts in WI and PA have already given verdicts that their elections violated the constitution......
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You repeat this often - but the 44,000 # is not accurate, and your interpretation of "verdicts" and "constitutionality" are completely off, as has been pointed out to you on other threads.
 
BartenderElite said:
You repeat this often - but the 44,000 # is not accurate, and your interpretation of "verdicts" and "constitutionality" are completely off, as has been pointed out to you on other threads.
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is NPR wrong?.....
In fact, in this election, Biden won the national popular vote by some 6 million votes so far, more than double Hillary Clinton's margin over Trump four years ago. But just 44,000 votes in Georgia, Arizona and Wisconsin separated Biden and Trump from a tie in the Electoral College.
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https://www.npr.org/2020/11/25/937248659/president-elect-biden-hits-80-million-votes-in-year-of-record-turnout

Arizona won by 10,457
Wisonsin won by 20,682
Georgia won by 11770

total 41,596......

omigorsh you were right.......it was nowhere near 44,000......



https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/results/president
 
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