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I told everyone to vote for Gary Black, nobody listened. Now we got a brain dead idiot

If Trump stayed completely out of Georgia politics, Warnock probably wouldn't have won in 2020, and it would have been incumbent Senator Kelly Loeffler running for re-election this year.

But yes, the truth is that Trump is a lousy politician. He won his first election, at the highest level of government, which is certainly an impressive achievement, and it's made his fans think he could do no wrong. However, Trump only won that due to an incredible series of breaks:

- A large and divided Republican field
- An unpopular Democratic opponent
- Russian-fueled social media manipulation and Wikileaks
- One-sided FBI leaks (Comey revealed that Clinton was under investigation by the FBI, but not that Trump was.)

And with all that, he still lost the popular vote and only won due to our unbalanced Electoral College system. Then while in office, he accomplished far less than a Republican President should have been able to do with a trifecta, and managed to lose all three legs of it in four years -- something that hadn't happened since Herbert Hoover was President. He's also left the Republican Party deeply divided and having lost, at least for now, two groups of high-propensity voters: highly educated voters, and suburban women.

I'm sure his fans here will jump on me for this, but Trump simply doesn't have good political skills. He got lucky once, and that's it. His meddling in this year's primaries is one of the main reasons the Republicans are currently on the short end of Senate winning probabilities. This is not to say they definitely won't regain control, but with a better slate of candidates they'd be in a much stronger position.

Several people have said that Trump is a Democratic mole intended to destroy the Republican Party. While I doubt this is his true motivation, he's had pretty much that effect.

Trump has good political instincts for his own campaigns which is why he won once and made things much closer than expected the second time.

However when it comes to candidate selection he's terrible.

As a narcissist he’s good at self preservation.

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