GA, AZ, and TX have been overrun by illegals and liberals escaping the hell they created in other states. That’s why Trump got a smaller % of votes. Poor analysis.
Actually, it was a good analysis. Trump ran poorly in many more heavily Republican suburban counties populated by upscale, white collar “moderate” Republicans such as Loudoun in Virginia, Chester and Bucks in Pennsylvania, Morris in New Jersey, Gwinnett and Cobb in Georgia, among many others. Part of this was the photo of the ancient leering Bush Sr. with RFK’s daughter, having “endorsed” Clinton (really disgusting for those of us who knew he wasn’t any good but held our noses to vote for him in 1988 since he had been Reagan’s VP) and his dolt son, GW, who did his best to wreck the Republican Party and supposedly left his presidential ballot line blank. No, Bushes, we don’t need you, stay with your friends, the Clintons, you are finished with the base of this Party or at least enough of us that you will never win another primary for a national election.
But Trump lost New Hampshire because of Country Club Republicans, period, end of story.
No one was happier than I to see Trump win the nomination while dispensing with Bushies. The two Bush Presidents brought America nothing but grief and trouble, and Jeb would have been worst of the lot.
But the Bush voters are a not-insignificant sector of what used to be the Republican Party. Trump proved correct that he could blow them off and replace them with white Americans abandoned and despised by the Democrats, but they cost him NH - I didn't know about the Houston suburbs, but an analysis of suburban whites across the board would be interesting.
The GOP Senators got significantly higher vote totals then Trump. Don't try to down play how much damage the Never Trumpers did with the rank and file GOP voters. They did suppress the GOP turn out for Trump.