Not Even Obama Could Have Defeated Trump in 2016

[MT Treasurer]

Obama's favorability ratings were so much higher than Clinton's that it is very difficult to believe that he wouldn't have done at least 1 percent better in PA, MI, and WI.

This. Stop with the excuses already, she was just a godawful candidate. And Trump was not some unbeatable titan.

[MT Treasurer]

The idea that Trump was the only Republican who would have been able to crack the BIG BAD BLUE WALL is pretty amusing. I don't see someone like Kasich (or even Rubio or Cruz, for that matter) losing Wisconsin either. His victory map probably would have resembled Ron Johnson's victory in the Senate race (with Kasich doing a lot better in the suburbs but maybe slightly worse in the traditionally Democratic rural areas).

People really underestimate how many Republicans and Independents only reluctantly voted for Trump because of the Supreme Court and issues like abortion and gun rights and because they despise Clinton.