Why did Trump lose?

[JackOfNoTrades]

I have noted that opinions differ and solicit your speculations.

Which of the following, if any, approximate what you suspect is the major reason:

1. The election merely reflected his having lost the popular vote in 2016 and the public sentiment remaining consistent, as he was relentlessly unpopular in survey after survey throughout his tenure.
2. He repeatedly scoffed at and minimized the threat posed by a pandemic that resulted in over 20 million infections, over 350,000 deaths, and the strain on dedicated healthcare providers to the breaking point.
3. He was the victim of a vast, very mysterious conspiracy in which Republican governors, Republican secretaries of state, Republican attorneys general, Republican county clerks, and Republican judges throughout the land were decisively complicit.
4. He was beaten by a sleepy, senile, corrupt Chinese sock puppet whom the American electorate deemed to be decidedly superior.

I hope all who entertain theories will share their analyses while refraining from vituperation, revilement, and diversionary ploys.

Civil, dispassionate discussion and sprightly discourse concerning causative factors, one might hope, ensue.

Several factors, but his pathetic behavior over the virus sealed his fate.

He could have tried to be an effective leader in a crisis, but chose instead to act like a talk radio host.

Can't wait till Biden's 3 month lockdown and the depression to follow.

You are wrong.
The stock market is going to go up a lot because of the secular bullish trends in the global economy.

AI, 5G, Cloud, Cybersecurity, E commerce, Digital Advertising, Green energy, EVs, Telehealth, Augmented reality, Social Media, Blockchain, Gene editing, Gene sequencing, and so much more is going to power the economy to new highs. The market is going up a lot more.
We are in a mini tech revolution like in 1995.

Also, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

He also said this on February 10th, the night before the NH primary.

 

[Siberian]

everything is simple - Whites are shrinking in numbers, in 20 years they will become a minority in the US.
And Whites are split.
So, Republicans will never have a Republican president, it will never get House if representatives under their control and if not on January 6, 2020 - in 1-2 electoral cycles they will lose Senate too.

And then the US will disintegrate...

 

[Indeependent]

everything is simple - Whites are shrinking in numbers, in 20 years they will become a minority in the US.
And Whites are split.
So, Republicans will never have a Republican president, it will never get House if representatives under their control and if not on January 6, 2020 - in 1-2 electoral cycles they will lose Senate too.

And then the US will disintegrate...

Universities said back in the 80s we would be gone already.

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

everything is simple - Whites are shrinking in numbers, in 20 years they will become a minority in the US.
And Whites are split.
So, Republicans will never have a Republican president, it will never get House if representatives under their control and if not on January 6, 2020 - in 1-2 electoral cycles they will lose Senate too.

And then the US will disintegrate...

Well, welcome and I don't share your cynicism. We've survived a long time and we'll survive the Trump years. Yes, demographics will change. This county is becoming more diverse. But that's not a bad thing. Republicans can rise again if they cast out the Trump cancer and start coming up with ideas that benefit working people again.

 

[Indeependent]

everything is simple - Whites are shrinking in numbers, in 20 years they will become a minority in the US.
And Whites are split.
So, Republicans will never have a Republican president, it will never get House if representatives under their control and if not on January 6, 2020 - in 1-2 electoral cycles they will lose Senate too.

And then the US will disintegrate...

Well, welcome and I don't share your cynicism. We've survived a long time and we'll survive the Trump years. Yes, demographics will change. This county is becoming more diverse. But that's not a bad thing. Republicans can rise again if they cast out the Trump cancer and start coming up with ideas that benefit working people again.

Post your address so that when Biden crashes the economy everyone who loses their jobs can visit you and beat the shit out of you.

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

everything is simple - Whites are shrinking in numbers, in 20 years they will become a minority in the US.
And Whites are split.
So, Republicans will never have a Republican president, it will never get House if representatives under their control and if not on January 6, 2020 - in 1-2 electoral cycles they will lose Senate too.

And then the US will disintegrate...

Well, welcome and I don't share your cynicism. We've survived a long time and we'll survive the Trump years. Yes, demographics will change. This county is becoming more diverse. But that's not a bad thing. Republicans can rise again if they cast out the Trump cancer and start coming up with ideas that benefit working people again.

Post your address so that when Biden crashes the economy everyone who loses their jobs can visit you and beat the shit out of you.

You really don't pay attention do you? OK, pop quiz. What's the unemployment rate? How many people out of work? First time unemployment claims? Crashed economy??? We're already there dude. Courtesy of the incompetent, corrupt poser in the WH...oh wait..he lost. Thanks for playing.

 

[Indeependent]

everything is simple - Whites are shrinking in numbers, in 20 years they will become a minority in the US.
And Whites are split.
So, Republicans will never have a Republican president, it will never get House if representatives under their control and if not on January 6, 2020 - in 1-2 electoral cycles they will lose Senate too.

And then the US will disintegrate...

Well, welcome and I don't share your cynicism. We've survived a long time and we'll survive the Trump years. Yes, demographics will change. This county is becoming more diverse. But that's not a bad thing. Republicans can rise again if they cast out the Trump cancer and start coming up with ideas that benefit working people again.

Post your address so that when Biden crashes the economy everyone who loses their jobs can visit you and beat the shit out of you.

You really don't pay attention do you? OK, pop quiz. What's the unemployment rate? How many people out of work? First time unemployment claims? Crashed economy??? We're already there dude. Courtesy of the incompetent, corrupt poser in the WH...oh wait..he lost. Thanks for playing.

The unemployment rate pre-Global COVID or last 12 months Global COVID?
Prior to Global COVID people were working everywhere and stores were opening everywhere.
Now the Globe is facing a recession by Donald J Trump.
By the way, your psychiatrist sucks.

 

[Carl in Michigan]

I have noted that opinions differ and solicit your speculations.

Which of the following, if any, approximate what you suspect is the major reason:

1. The election merely reflected his having lost the popular vote in 2016 and the public sentiment remaining consistent, as he was relentlessly unpopular in survey after survey throughout his tenure.
2. He repeatedly scoffed at and minimized the threat posed by a pandemic that resulted in over 20 million infections, over 350,000 deaths, and the strain on dedicated healthcare providers to the breaking point.
3. He was the victim of a vast, very mysterious conspiracy in which Republican governors, Republican secretaries of state, Republican attorneys general, Republican county clerks, and Republican judges throughout the land were decisively complicit.
4. He was beaten by a sleepy, senile, corrupt Chinese sock puppet whom the American electorate deemed to be decidedly superior.

I hope all who entertain theories will share their analyses while refraining from vituperation, revilement, and diversionary ploys.

Civil, dispassionate discussion and sprightly discourse concerning causative factors, one might hope, ensue.

He won in a landslide. Even 30% of Democrats have acknowledged this fact

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

everything is simple - Whites are shrinking in numbers, in 20 years they will become a minority in the US.
And Whites are split.
So, Republicans will never have a Republican president, it will never get House if representatives under their control and if not on January 6, 2020 - in 1-2 electoral cycles they will lose Senate too.

And then the US will disintegrate...

Well, welcome and I don't share your cynicism. We've survived a long time and we'll survive the Trump years. Yes, demographics will change. This county is becoming more diverse. But that's not a bad thing. Republicans can rise again if they cast out the Trump cancer and start coming up with ideas that benefit working people again.

Post your address so that when Biden crashes the economy everyone who loses their jobs can visit you and beat the shit out of you.

You really don't pay attention do you? OK, pop quiz. What's the unemployment rate? How many people out of work? First time unemployment claims? Crashed economy??? We're already there dude. Courtesy of the incompetent, corrupt poser in the WH...oh wait..he lost. Thanks for playing.

The unemployment rate pre-Global COVID or last 12 months Global COVID?
Prior to Global COVID people were working everywhere and stores were opening everywhere.
Now the Globe is facing a recession by Donald J Trump.
By the way, your psychiatrist sucks.

Again, if you are going to give him credit for economic growth that he was handed off to him by his predecessor and he that he coasted on for three years, you have to give him the blame for the decline that happened UNDER HIS WATCH!! He is President. He is responsible for the governments response.

 

[Pogo]

I have noted that opinions differ and solicit your speculations.

Which of the following, if any, approximate what you suspect is the major reason:

1. The election merely reflected his having lost the popular vote in 2016 and the public sentiment remaining consistent, as he was relentlessly unpopular in survey after survey throughout his tenure.
2. He repeatedly scoffed at and minimized the threat posed by a pandemic that resulted in over 20 million infections, over 350,000 deaths, and the strain on dedicated healthcare providers to the breaking point.
3. He was the victim of a vast, very mysterious conspiracy in which Republican governors, Republican secretaries of state, Republican attorneys general, Republican county clerks, and Republican judges throughout the land were decisively complicit.
4. He was beaten by a sleepy, senile, corrupt Chinese sock puppet whom the American electorate deemed to be decidedly superior.

I hope all who entertain theories will share their analyses while refraining from vituperation, revilement, and diversionary ploys.

Civil, dispassionate discussion and sprightly discourse concerning causative factors, one might hope, ensue.

#2 certainly had its impact but mostly #1. Rump squeaked into office by the thinnest of perfect storm RCH margins and a historically abysmal pop vote count in an election without a major 3p. After that, as mentioned, a historically abysmal popularity record which literally never touched as high as 50% -- the only POTUS for which that's true among the last thirteen for whom polling was done (even Gerald Ford bubbled over 50%). In none of his Terrible Three states that turned the election (Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania) could he muster as much as half the state vote. And several other states as well including UTAH.

Rather than the "landslide" he hallucinated for himself it was the softest landing in office in any of our lifetimes, in other words the weakest base of support, so his losing was inevitable. If there hadn't been so much vote-suppression going on especially with the mails, and/or if the Democratic Party had run a dynamic energizing candidate, he would have gone down a lot harder than seven million.

 

[Indeependent]

everything is simple - Whites are shrinking in numbers, in 20 years they will become a minority in the US.
And Whites are split.
So, Republicans will never have a Republican president, it will never get House if representatives under their control and if not on January 6, 2020 - in 1-2 electoral cycles they will lose Senate too.

And then the US will disintegrate...

Well, welcome and I don't share your cynicism. We've survived a long time and we'll survive the Trump years. Yes, demographics will change. This county is becoming more diverse. But that's not a bad thing. Republicans can rise again if they cast out the Trump cancer and start coming up with ideas that benefit working people again.

Post your address so that when Biden crashes the economy everyone who loses their jobs can visit you and beat the shit out of you.

You really don't pay attention do you? OK, pop quiz. What's the unemployment rate? How many people out of work? First time unemployment claims? Crashed economy??? We're already there dude. Courtesy of the incompetent, corrupt poser in the WH...oh wait..he lost. Thanks for playing.

The unemployment rate pre-Global COVID or last 12 months Global COVID?
Prior to Global COVID people were working everywhere and stores were opening everywhere.
Now the Globe is facing a recession by Donald J Trump.
By the way, your psychiatrist sucks.

Again, if you are going to give him credit for economic growth that he was handed off to him by his predecessor and he that he coasted on for three years, you have to give him the blame for the decline that happened UNDER HIS WATCH!! He is President. He is responsible for the governments response.

I agree that every world leader and political body should be fired immediately.
Now tell me why the 17 MDs in Congress didn't warn anybody about COVID back in November 2019.
In fact, the Chinese just admitted a day or 2 ago that they lied to the rest of the world as millions of Chinese were getting COVID and China didn't want to lose business.
I think you and your fellow "educated" Liberals should send email to the Chinese government to resign since they purposely allowed the virus to spread world wide and thus murdered millions of people.
But alas, you're a Liberal, so you'll continue to blame Trump.

 

[Siberian]

everything is simple - Whites are shrinking in numbers, in 20 years they will become a minority in the US.
And Whites are split.
So, Republicans will never have a Republican president, it will never get House if representatives under their control and if not on January 6, 2020 - in 1-2 electoral cycles they will lose Senate too.

And then the US will disintegrate...

Well, welcome and I don't share your cynicism. We've survived a long time and we'll survive the Trump years. Yes, demographics will change. This county is becoming more diverse. But that's not a bad thing. Republicans can rise again if they cast out the Trump cancer and start coming up with ideas that benefit working people again.

thanks, and it is not cinicism.

US is facing 3 major crises,
1) demographic shift, which entirely changes self-identification of the country (see war against monuments)
New Mexico already has Spanish speakers being 52% of population, California and Texas - 44%). In 10 years the belt of 2 rows of states along Mexican border will have Spanish speaking majority, especially if Democrats legalize 11 mln of illegal immigrants.

Generally, when minorities become self aware as a political entity it will cause a major earthquake in US political system.

like - establishment of ethnic/racial political parties.

Now Democratic party gradually drifts to becoming a party of minorities, but it will split to 2-3 smaller ones.

because : Democrats of these Latino states of South West voted for Sanders while the rest of Democrats voted for Biden.
So -

2) Clearly there is another major shift - to Socialism, it will be another earthquake especially with economic crisis deepening.
So, Democratic party will split to at least Latino/Socialist and White Liberal, but probably to bigger number of parties, if Blacks self-organize too...

So, 2) an economic crisis or better to say collapse of the debt pyramid and Dollar as World reserve currency. China is already the biggest World economy measured in purchaising power parity and in 5 years it will become the Biggest economy in nominal Dollar figures.
Destroying Dollar and ability of the US to endlessly print money in unlimited volumes.
I remind, current deficite of US budget is 50%.

ethnically/racially complex countries disintegrafe exactly during major economic crises, like USSR..

3) China in 15 years will surpass the US militarily.

So, which of these conditions were present before to say that the US survived them already, not once?

 

[eddiew37]

Why you ask?
There are probably a few things missing but that pretty much covers it.

 

[TheParser]

I have noted that opinions differ and solicit your speculations.

Which of the following, if any, approximate what you suspect is the major reason:

1. The election merely reflected his having lost the popular vote in 2016 and the public sentiment remaining consistent, as he was relentlessly unpopular in survey after survey throughout his tenure.
2. He repeatedly scoffed at and minimized the threat posed by a pandemic that resulted in over 20 million infections, over 350,000 deaths, and the strain on dedicated healthcare providers to the breaking point.
3. He was the victim of a vast, very mysterious conspiracy in which Republican governors, Republican secretaries of state, Republican attorneys general, Republican county clerks, and Republican judges throughout the land were decisively complicit.
4. He was beaten by a sleepy, senile, corrupt Chinese sock puppet whom the American electorate deemed to be decidedly superior.

I hope all who entertain theories will share their analyses while refraining from vituperation, revilement, and diversionary ploys.

Civil, dispassionate discussion and sprightly discourse concerning causative factors, one might hope, ensue.

 

[TheParser]

I have noted that opinions differ and solicit your speculations.

Which of the following, if any, approximate what you suspect is the major reason:

1. The election merely reflected his having lost the popular vote in 2016 and the public sentiment remaining consistent, as he was relentlessly unpopular in survey after survey throughout his tenure.
2. He repeatedly scoffed at and minimized the threat posed by a pandemic that resulted in over 20 million infections, over 350,000 deaths, and the strain on dedicated healthcare providers to the breaking point.
3. He was the victim of a vast, very mysterious conspiracy in which Republican governors, Republican secretaries of state, Republican attorneys general, Republican county clerks, and Republican judges throughout the land were decisively complicit.
4. He was beaten by a sleepy, senile, corrupt Chinese sock puppet whom the American electorate deemed to be decidedly superior.

I hope all who entertain theories will share their analyses while refraining from vituperation, revilement, and diversionary ploys.

Civil, dispassionate discussion and sprightly discourse concerning causative factors, one might hope, ensue.

1. I voted for President Trump twice.

2. I am devastated that he lost, for I was counting on him to hold back the hordes for at least another four years. (I am 83 years old, so ...)

3. For the sake of discussion, I shall assume that the election results were substantially accurate.

4. I believe that President Trump lost because of his obnoxious personality. He totally lacked a sense of humor. He could not stand any criticism. He just said whatever popped into his head. He did not seem to have an inner censor.

I wish him well, but I know that his enemies (like that New York state attorney general) are rubbing their hands as they plan to prosecute and persecute him.

 

[surada]

I have noted that opinions differ and solicit your speculations.

Which of the following, if any, approximate what you suspect is the major reason:

1. The election merely reflected his having lost the popular vote in 2016 and the public sentiment remaining consistent, as he was relentlessly unpopular in survey after survey throughout his tenure.
2. He repeatedly scoffed at and minimized the threat posed by a pandemic that resulted in over 20 million infections, over 350,000 deaths, and the strain on dedicated healthcare providers to the breaking point.
3. He was the victim of a vast, very mysterious conspiracy in which Republican governors, Republican secretaries of state, Republican attorneys general, Republican county clerks, and Republican judges throughout the land were decisively complicit.
4. He was beaten by a sleepy, senile, corrupt Chinese sock puppet whom the American electorate deemed to be decidedly superior.

I hope all who entertain theories will share their analyses while refraining from vituperation, revilement, and diversionary ploys.

Civil, dispassionate discussion and sprightly discourse concerning causative factors, one might hope, ensue.

Its a life long pattern.. Trump goes off half-cocked, never does his due diligence, gets angry and self destructs. He's very lazy.. He made 12,000 tweets last year and picked a lot of fights.

 

[lennypartiv]

The vote ain't over. Now we're hearing there are missing votes in Georgia.

 

[Eric Arthur Blair]

If you remove the votes that Biden stole by Dominion Trump won handily.
So much doo doo about nothing.

 

[citygator]

Easy. It’s math. Dude barely won 2016 against the WORST political candidate in history. If 190,00 votes fell differently in 4 states out of 23.3m votes in those 4 states then Trump loses. That’s less that 1%. Basically if 1 out of 100 people were disgusted by Trump’s behavior or liked Biden more than Hilary the math says Trump loses.

Well, about 2 out of every 100 people were newly disgusted by Trump or despised Biden less than Hillary. Math.

Trump lost the “benefit of the doubt voters”. People who were tired of Washington gridlock and wanted something else. It only took a small sliver of self respecting Americans to see that was a terrible idea in hindsight.