If you listen to the pundits, you’d think that the @HouseGOP did very well during the 2020 elections.
That’s not quite true.
Here’s what actually happened.
Florida
(Lost 2 seats in 2018, gained 2 seats in 2020)
Iowa
(Lost 2 seats in 2018, gained 2 seats in 2020)
(Lost 1 seat in 2018, gained 1 seat in 2020)
Oklahoma
(Lost 1 seat in 2018, gained 1 seat in 2020)
South Carolina
(Lost 1 seat in 2018, gained 1 seat in 2020)
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Note to Trump supporters asking “why do you keep bringing him up?” Easy answer: he won’t shut his lying pie hole.
This is HOW he lost.
Okay, so here is a more complete rundown of how the last three Presidential Elections went down. And some more mythbusting of Trump's lies about the 2020 Election. https://t.co/3M9c79wHop pic.twitter.com/eRNRKQZzzB
— TheValuesVoter (@TheValuesVoter) May 1, 2021
And this is HOW he lost.
He lost a lot of the white voters, college educated voters and independents who supported him in 2016.
So here, in charts and tables, are the exit polls for the five states that flipped in the 2020 election.
— TheValuesVoter (@TheValuesVoter) May 15, 2021
Arizona - the trend of the state (clearly trending toward the Dems after 2012) and the groups Trump improved/declined with between 2016, when he won and 2020, when he lost. pic.twitter.com/ZxUXyui83R
In 2016, Donald Trump won Independents in every one of the six states that he flipped from blue to red.
In 2020, Donald Trump lost Independents in every one of the five states that Joe Biden flipped from red to blue.
Is it somehow strange that Trump lost the election? No. It would have been much stranger had Trump managed to win the election.
No one as consistently unpopular as him has ever been re-elected. Like ever.

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