Thread by @TheValuesVoter

Donald Trump barely won the state of Pennsylvania in 2016. A state that hadn’t gone red in a Presidential Election since 1988. He won it in 2016 by 44,292 votes. A historic anomaly.

In 2020, Trump lost by nearly twice the margin he had won by in 2016 - 80,554 votes.
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Since Trump took office and until he left office, the GOP lost 4 US House seats in PA, lost a net 4 State Senate seats in PA and lost a net 8 State House seats in PA.

He lost to Joe Biden, who was long referred to as “Pennsylvania’s Third Senator,” who lived literally next door.

A third of Pennsylvania voters live in the Philadelphia Metro area. Which Trump lost by more than 30 points.

Trump won most counties in Pennsylvania. But not the counties where most of the voters in the state live.

And before you give any credence to Team Trump’s racist conspiracy theories about Philadelphia (“I see BLACK people!”), know that Trump actually IMPROVED in Philly compared to his 2016 performance.

But he got crushed in the Philly SUBURBS. Next door to the guy from Delaware.

And throughout the state, the official results, the result of the official tabulations, almost exactly matched the results of the exit polls. Surveys which asked people how they voted after they voted. And which don’t go through voting machines.

So why do Trump and so many of his surrogates and hangers on insist he won Pennsylvania? Several reasons:

1) Trump won’t admit it because he lies constantly and his ego won’t allow him to ever admit that he’s ever lost anything.

Trump doesn’t care about the damage his lie has done to the country. He would rather watch the place burn down and toast marshmallows on the flames than admit he failed. He doesn’t care.

2) Politicians seeking his support, who are running in places where his blessing makes the difference between winning and losing are perfectly willing to go along with the lie if it means they get to keep their jobs or get better jobs.

3) And then there are the regular people, who I don’t blame as much. People who have been lied to and told by people they trust that Trump somehow won and had the election “stolen” from him. Which is a lie. Trump lost.

Also, look at the county results in PA. If you live in most places in PA, your county is red and every county around you for many miles is red. These people can’t be blamed for asking “how could Trump have lost? I saw Trump signs everywhere!” Yeah, I’m sure you did.

But see this map? Those 9 counties in yellow are where half the adults in Pennsylvania live. There are more people in those 9 counties than in the other 58 combined. And Biden won 6 of those 9 counties.

Every state in the 2020 election followed this pattern, including Pennsylvania.

Either Trump won the majority of the counties that make up most of the population (almost nowhere) OR he got 40% in these largest counties and 58% everywhere else OR he lost.

He didn’t. He lost.

Why is it that Trump became the only President in US history who lost an election and spent all his remaining days in power trying to overturn the election? Why will he spend the rest of his life insisting he won?

That, my friends, is for the psychiatrists.