Given the close result, was the 2020 environment really that bad?

[dw93]

It was, but it didn't become bad until June or July of 2020. For 6-8 months prior to that point, I honestly thought Trump was gonna win.

[dw93]

It was, but it didn't become bad until June or July of 2020. For 6-8 months prior to that point, I honestly thought Trump was gonna win.

Why do you think it was June or July as opposed to April or may?

If you'll remember the country initially started to rally behind Trump in the early days of the pandemic, and it was around June/July that it became clear that he screwed the pooch in dealing with the pandemic (and that he was warned about it as early as January), and it was also at that time that he dumped a can a gas on the fire that was race relations in the US in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd.

In short, Trump could've won, but he shot himself (and in turn the country) in the foot one too many times and lost it in the end.

[dw93]

It was, but it didn't become bad until June or July of 2020. For 6-8 months prior to that point, I honestly thought Trump was gonna win.

Why do you think it was June or July as opposed to April or may?

If you'll remember the country initially started to rally behind Trump in the early days of the pandemic, and it was around June/July that it became clear that he screwed the pooch in dealing with the pandemic (and that he was warned about it as early as January), and it was also at that time that he dumped a can a gas on the fire that was race relations in the US in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd.

In short, Trump could've won, but he shot himself (and in turn the country) in the foot one too many times and lost it in the end.

And then lockdowns and riots/Defund the Police happened and that shifted a lot of voters back towards the GOP.

Not enough shifted back to get Trump over the finish line though. Defund the police and the riots no doubt hurt the Democrats, hence the Republican gains downticket (outside of the Senate), but they didn't help Trump, and as for the lockdowns, most of the people who opposed them were gonna back Trump anyway so they by themselves didn't make that much of a difference.