Thread by @AGHamilton29

So it's time for a bit of a rant that will upset some of my followers. I have been intentionally biting my tongue until the polls close (outside a few still open), but have to be honest about what I have wanted to say.

First, to come clean on my election prediction:

Here was my intentionally cryptic tweet representing electoral votes and Senate seats:

https://twitter.com/AGHamilton29/status/1321785783305543681

and here was my map (I screwed up NE by mistake):

I stayed quiet until the polls were closed for one major reason: Trump was already an anchor on at-risk Senate candidates that are desperately needed to keep Dems in check and I didn’t want to add to that.

With that said, and this might upset some people, but Trump will have no one to blame but himself if he loses. He spent a lot of time alienating real potential supporters. Dems had alienated conservative minority voters and all Trump had to do was keep his support elsewhere.

Lashing out at personal critics and getting into feuds with people in your own administration without presenting a coherent second term agenda just isn’t a great closing election strategy...

It’s not on Trump’s campaign either, which did everything they could. The candidate made these choices. Even in 2016 Trump somehow managed to restrain himself over the last month of the campaign. He did the opposite down the stretch this year.

Now it's possible it won't matter and Trump still wins, but he undermined his own chances over and over again with his behavior/focus.

If he does lose, I hope his supporters take an honest look as to why and realize his own ego and choices did enormous damage and helped Democrats who were themselves stepping on rakes left and right.

Anyway, that's my take. I felt like I needed to get that out there because I was biting my tongue to try to make sure it doesn't further hurt other candidates.