Thread by @TheValuesVoter

Some dishonest Trump surrogates and supporters try to make it seem as if the 2020 elections were some sort of anomaly. That Trump was doing awesomely and that something must have gone suspiciously wrong in order for him to lose.

And so I prepared this little recap ...

Trump took office in January, 2017.

In November, 2017, the GOP lost the New Jersey Governorship

In 2018, the GOP lost the Governorships in Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico and Wisconsin.

Also in 2018, Trump’s party lost a Senate seat in Arizona and a seat in Nevada.

The GOP that year also failed to flip the Senate seats Democrats held in Montana and West Virginia. Despite Trump personally making repeated trips to Montana to campaign against Jon Tester. Nope!

In 2019, Trump’s party lost the Kentucky Governorship. And failed to take the Louisiana Governorship. Both of them in spite of Trump doing heavy in-person campaigning. But the people voted the opposite of the way Trump personally pleaded for them to.

In 2020, almost to finish off unsettled business, Trump’s party proceeded to lose the OTHER Arizona Senate seat after having lost the first one just two years beforehand.

And with that long string of GOP losses listed already, let’s finally get onto Trump’s own re-election bid.

Trump barely won Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin in 2016.

In 2020, Trump not-so-barely lost Pennsylvania and Michigan. And narrowly lost Wisconsin, a state that has often gone close in Presidential elections.

And then there are Arizona and Georgia, two former red states that went blue in 2020 and that have one more thing in common.

The GOP lost a Senate seat in Arizona in BOTH 2018 and 2020.

The GOP lost a House seat in Georgia in BOTH 2018 and 2020.

Consistency!

So, unless you get all your information from Fox News, OANN and/or Newsmax - and you read a little or at least look at the numbers - you’ll notice a pattern. Trump and his party (and quite a few who he campaigned for) lost quite a bit even before the 2020 Elections.

A lot of Trumpists went nuts this week when a Gallup poll showed that Trump finally won the “Most Admired” poll which Presidents usually get.

Gallup also shows that Trump has the lowest average approval of any President in its entire history. Just 41%.

And even those who swear by their tin foil hats that something fishy must have gone on in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin (funny how they suspect problems ONLY in the states Trump lost), what about NEBRASKA?? Trump lost its second District.

The average American’s grandparents hadn’t been conceived the last time a Republican President lost any part of Nebraska.

But it happened to Trump. Not long after Mr. Charm left a bunch of his supporters in Omaha stranded in the freezing cold.

https://twitter.com/TheValuesVoter/status/1342988100339970054

None of these facts are going to change the minds of people who either:

1) Are lying shills whose only concern is advancing their careers by saying what people want to hear (Hi, #JimCrowCaucus!)

2) Only listen to shamsters who lie to them.

3) Are on crack. Like right now.

But, for the record, just as Trump had a long string of failures in his life before he got elected in 2016, he has had a long string of political failures since he took office. Even before he lost the 2020 election.

Rhetorical question for the tin-foil crowd: we’re ALL the elections “rigged?” Like all the elections in which Trump’s party has lost or lost ground since he came to office and started making normal people cringe?

Because if you combine the vote tallies of the 2016 and 2020 elections, 9.8 million more people voted for his Democratic opponent than for him.

He never once had a Gallup poll that had a mere 50% approval.

He never had the support of most “real Americans.” Never.

One more observation: for the most part I have just listed the STATEWIDE contests which Trump or his party have lost since he took office. I mostly ignored the House.

Why? Because statewide races include the exact same set of people who vote in Presidential elections.

So if you’re wondering, for example, if Trump lost Arizona, the same group of people who voted in the Presidential election voted for a Democratic Senator in 2018 and then did it again in 2020.

As well as the same people who voted for Governor in Michigan and Wisconsin in 2018.

And the same people who voted in Georgia’s close Presidential election voted for Senator. The same elections in which neither side got 50 percent of the vote.

Yeah.

Everything is consistent. Except for the liars who are pretending that Trump didn’t get voted out.

Here are some of Trump's losses that I mention that took place even before his own 2020 re-election loss.

The man has been campaigning essentially non-stop for four years. Often for other candidates. And often, voters turned him down on that as well.

2017: Roy Moore.

2018: Trump personally campaigned in person for candidates who lost statewide contests in Arizona, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

2019: Trump campaigned heavily to try to help Republicans win the Louisiana Governorship and also tried to help out in Kentucky. Neither attempt was successful and Trump's candidates went down in those contests.

2020: Even apart from his own re-election loss, he tried and failed to help Republicans win Senate elections in Arizona and Michigan. Both lost.

The funny thing is that both McSally (AZ) and James (MI) lost TWO SENATE ELECTIONS IN A ROW. Trump campaigned for them both times.

2020: As far as his own loss goes, he lost the states he won by the hair on his back in 2016. And he lost the two states where Republicans lost the same Congressional elections in both 2018 and 2020.

In BOTH 2018 and 2020, the GOP lost a Senate seat in AZ and a House seat in GA

And as much as everybody talks about how well Trump's party did in the House elections, that comes with an asterisk.

In 2020, the GOP gained back the seats it lost in 2018 in Florida, Iowa, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Utah. It was projected to lose seats in 2020.

But over the course of Trump's Presidency, including both 2016 and 2018, the GOP has had a net loss of House seats in Arizona (1), California (4), Colorado (1), Georgia (2), Illinois (2), Kansas (1), Maine (1), Michigan (2), New Jersey (3), New York (2), North Carolina (3),

Pennsylvania (3), Texas (2), Virginia (3) and Washington (1).

So, no. Trump was not doing awesomely politically. And his election loss in 2020 was not some sort of weird anomaly. At all.

These are the things you learn when you study the numbers instead of listening to Trump's surrogates and the Trump-friendly networks. Who regularly lie and distort the truth in order to protect his very sensitive feelings.

This is what it is. Look it up yourself!

And here are all the times that Trump has gone to the states which Biden flipped in 2020 and tried - and failed - to get his voters to vote for someone in a statewide election.

2018 - Trump campaigned with Bill Schuette to help him become Governor of Michigan. Schuette lost.

2018 - Trump campaigned with Scott Walker to help him keep his office as Governor of Wisconsin. Walker lost.

2018 - Trump campaigned with Martha McSally to urge Arizonans to vote for her for US Senator. She lost the election but was appointed to Arizona's other seat.

2018 - Trump campaigned twice with Lou Barletta to help him unseat Bob Casey as Pennsylvania Senator. Despite urging voters in Pennsylvania to vote for his candidate, Barletta lost.

2018 - Trump campaigned with Leah Vukmir, urging voters in Wisconsin to vote for her over Senator Tammy Baldwin. Vukmir lost.

2020 - As mentioned, Trump campaigned for Martha McSally and John James for the second time in two years to become US Senator in Arizona and Michigan.

For the second time in two years, both of them lost.

(I'm beginning to suspect that Trump wasn't as popular in these states as he thought he was).

Anyway, this is yet another of a thousand data points that provide more context into Trump's loss. Let the Cultists cult and the normal people think.