Thread by @TheValuesVoter

A lot of candidates of both parties lost close elections in the 2022 midterms. Most of them conceded the races and accepted it didn’t go their way this time. Otherwise known as adulting.

But because two candidates, the drama queens who ran for #AZGOV and #AZSOS, refuse to admit they lost, spurred on by the biggest drama queen who has ever lived, Donald Trump, I decided to compare a few things.

We know what it looks like when a Republican wins Arizona. Donald Trump himself narrowly won Arizona in 2016. It wasn’t pretty and was a lot closer than when Romney won the state just four years beforehand. But we can use that as a baseline. And compare it to 2020 and 2022.

In 2020, Donald Trump lied and said that he somehow won Arizona. Kari Lake has been lying from the beginning by saying that Trump won Arizona. And now that she lost, she’s lying some more and saying that she won Arizona

Let’s compare the 2016 election versus 2020 and 2022.

First of all let’s remember where most of the population in Arizona lives. It’s a big state physically. But most of its population lives in just a few places.

Percentage of the Adult Citizen Population By County (2020 Census)

Maricopa - 59.7% of AZ adult citizens
Pima - 15.1%
Pinal - 6.5%
Yavapai - 3.7%
Mohave - 3.3%
Yuma - 2.6%
Coconino - 2.2%
Cochise - 1.9%
Navajo - 1.6%
Apache - 1.0%
Gila - 0.8%
Santa Cruz - 0.6%

Graham - 0.5% of AZ adult citizens
La Paz - 0.3%
Greenlee - 0.1%

75% of the population lives in the two most populous of its 15 counties.

More than 90% live in the 6 largest of the 15.

Okay, so let’s compare 2016, when Trump narrowly won AZ to 2020, when he narrowly lost AZ.

In 2020, Trump either won by a smaller margin or lost by a greater % margin in every AZ county except for Greenlee, Santa Cruz and Yuma.

Counties where a combined 3.3% of voters live.

And, as we always need to remember, even that one time when Trump did win Arizona, in 2016, he didn’t win it by all that much.

Hillary Clinton campaigned there. Her team saw the polls and saw that the state could flip blue. They were just four years too early.

So in 2020, as mentioned, Trump‘s margins were smaller than they were compared to his 2016 performance in every AZ county except for Greenlee, Santa Cruz and Yuma.

How does Lake 2022 compare to Trump 2020 - which itself was a losing effort?

In 2022, Kari Lake got lower margins (meaning, she either won by less or lost by more) in every county in Arizona except for Apache (1.0% of the adult citizen population), La Paz (0.3%), Navajo (1.6%), Santa Cruz (0.6%) and Yuma (2.6%).

In other words, in the 10 counties that make up 93.9% of Arizona’s adult U.S. Citizen population according to the Census Bureau, Kari Lake did not even do as well in percentage margin as Donald Trump did in Arizona in 2020.

And Donald Trump LOST Arizona in 2020.

As for that somewhat creepy guy who ran for SOS, it’s not even necessary to compare his performance to Trump’s.

He didn’t do as well as Lake. Who didn’t do as well as Trump 2020. Who didn’t do as well as Trump 2016.

But they all take their cues from the biggest spoiled brat who ever lived. Who seemingly never had anyone ever say “no” to him during his developmental years. He looks at everything that belongs to the people, such as our elected offices, and says “mine!”

And following their lead are a whole bunch of gullible yet highly entitled citizens whose basic posture is something like “we won the election … or we’ll start a civil war.”

These are the kinds of people who see only themselves as “real” Americans.

Gullible spoiled brats.

There are a lot of 2022 candidates who lost races by a significantly closer margin than Lake or Finchem did in 2022 or than Trump did in 2020. INCLUDING REPUBLICANS.

Sucks for them. Disappointing. But they’re not throwing temper tantrums. Because somebody raised them.