Donald Trump was never very popular so
he he never he almost never had an
approval rating over 50% so given his
approval rating one would not have
expected him to win re-election because
it was usually in the high 30s or low
40s this is not an approval rating that
generally gets reelected also Trump
energized his opponents even more than
he energized his supporters so you saw
very substantial increase in turnout in
2018 and you saw it primarily in the
suburbs so what happened was in the key
States and in or the other states there
was approximately a 2% Suburban turnout
away from Trump and towards the
Democratic candidate and that
essentially decided the election Donald
Trump for all his virtues and I I was
you know incredibly thrilled by a lot of
the things that he he did he he's never
shown that he's particularly good at
running things he was not good at
running things in business he would have
been far richer if he'd simply invested
the funds in in you know the most
ordinary
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much in the Democrats interest to make
voting as easy as possible just as it's
very much in Republican interest to make
voting as difficult as possible now
Republicans can't come out and say we
want to suppress the vote but it's in
Republican interest to move the the vter
voter turnout down a little bit just as
it's in the Democrats interest to move
the voter turnout up a little bit if if
voter turnout keeps going up a lot more
black people and Latinos and low
information voters are going to vote and
they're overwhelmingly going to vote for
the democ RS because it's not socially
acceptable to say that you're for
suppressing the vote Republicans use
this rhetoric of voter fraud and it's
been a big deal since the the motor
voter registration Act passed by Bill
Clinton Circa 1993 and Republicans have
placed enormous
rhetorical uh effort into making the
case for massive amounts of voter fraud
they have all these Talking Heads and
they're just so pathetic I mean look I
understand rhetoric and I understand if
you can just like diminish the the
minority vote you know 2% that you
increase the odds of Republicans winning
certain seats but I'm not going to buy
your rhetoric Republican presidents from
from Trump to George W bush to Ronald
Reagan put all sorts of uh federal
attorneys into place to pursue voter
fraud and they can never come up with
more than a handful of cases Hans Von
poosy the Heritage Cent's voter fraud
expert is able to come up with about
1300 cases of voter fraud over the past
40 years so over the past 40 years we've
had over a billion votes count counted
and and he can come up with documented
cases of about 1300 so Republicans were
always screaming about voter fraud
president Trump was always screaming
about voter fraud they've never been a
to assemble the evidence there's
absolutely no price paid for you know
crying and yelling and screaming about
voter fraud but but people aren't coming
out with the evidence it it's
absolutely
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