How did Trump win?
First off, this question is asked entirely in good faith. I'm not here to rage bait, I'm not here to argue. I wanna look at this from as logical of a side as possible.
This was my first election I could vote in, so I've been watching it very closely. From the primary election in early 2024 to the original assassination on trump, to Biden dropping out, To Harris taking up the democratic nominee and eventually polling well as the projected winner, and then finally to Trumps shocking win tonight. And I wanna ask, how did we get here?
Truth be told, I don't like trump. I don't particularly like Harris either but I really don't like Trump. And I really don't understand how he won tonight. My reasoning is as follows:
- Harris has been polling well
- Yes polling isn't everything. Just in 2016, Clinton was polling well and lost hard. But just adding this into the rest of the list of reasons makes it all the more conclusive
- Trumps recent actions at his rallies.
- It's not an overexageration to say that Trump hasn't shown his best side at his most recent rallies. From the Puerto Rico comments to the facilitating falatio to a microphone. I don't understand how he got so many votes by doing these actions alone. If this were say the 1960s or 70s and the presidential candidate did that, they would surly not win.
- Trump lost in 2020.
- Trump lost in 2020 pretty convincingly. I don't understand how someone could go from incumbent president and losing the election which is a hard thing to do in and of itself. And then win the election four years later. Yes, I'll admit, Biden's presidency hasn't been perfect but the economy has grown greatly and unemployment is at all time lows.
- Trump won the popular vote.
- This kind of ties into the other reasons but it's still hard to wrap my head around. Apparently this election had record high turnout right? Yet both president's only got less than 70 million votes. Trump getting 69 million and Harris getting 65 million. Yes, not all the votes have been counted yet but I don't see how that could bring us to 2020 numbers with Biden and Trump having 81 million and 74 million respectively. So far we are missing at least 16 million votes and I don't see how we are getting there since the majority of the states have been called and are In the 90s in percentages of votes counted. I could be wrong on this one though but it feels worth noting.
Now, maybe only one or two of these happening wouldn't make this election as perplexing to me but all of them happening has really thrown me for a loop. I'm a very logic based person but I understand that perhaps I had some biased going into this or where I got my news from. However throughout the election I have been steadfast in maintaining a neutral view when it comes to news, and as far as I could tell from even down to a month ago from this day, this election was looking like a Harris victory. So what happened? Where is the flaws in my reasoning? Please explain in simple terms with any evidence possible of how Trump beat the odds he had a month or so ago and won this election?