” that “Trump has no grasp of the issues”. Since Trump has over 2,000,000 more votes than your candidate, it is entirely plausible that you have no “grasp of the issues”.”
If the standard was “the person who got the most votes has the best grasp of the issues,” then Obama would be brilliant.
But, as noted already, Trump’s go-to distraction when confronted by his lack of substance is “look at my polls!” “I’m winning!”
I do agree that the “look at my polls” distraction works on people who are not very smart because they confuse that with substance.
Well, Obama did support the issues that the largest part of the electorate identified as most important to them. Whether you or I agreed with them is irrelevant.
We as individuals do not decide what the driving issues are, the electorate at large does. In the last 7 elections, the candidate who most closely mirrored my position on the issues never made to my primary.
Also, votes are a lot different from polls.