Any other candidate, would have lost... PERIOD.
Without Trump tossing overboard Globalist concepts of Free Trade, and open borders, he would have never taken the upper midwest, Sure another R might have got OH, Even IA... Possibly even flipped FL and NH and held NC.. but guess what? That wasn’t going to be enough and the left knew it!
THey knew they could give up huge ground and still win... and not one of them could remotely contemplate losing any one of PA, WI and MI... let alone all 3...
And no other R candidate was going to win any of those 3... Trump, saw the play from day one, and methodically worked it... and in the end, he not only got one, but got all 3... and the left never ever saw it coming. No other R would have likely seen the play Trump made, or if they did would have been allowed ot make it, because every last damned one of the rest was financed by people who WANTED MORE FREE TRADE, MORE OPEN BORDERS and had written off these working class voters in these states as just collateral damage to their larger vision... and that was true of both sides of the aisle.
Trump, had the vision, and guts to make the play he did, and despite the fact it was blatant what he was trying to do from day one, the left never ever took him serious or even bother to try to defend this territory in any real meaningful way.. they never made a play for the working class voter in pain being devoured by globalist policies, they didn’t even care.. they thought, I got the hispanics, I got the blacks, I got the liberal guilt ridden whites... I don’t need the working man....
Think about that... the Democratic Party, literally decided it DIDN’T NEED THE WORKING MAN TO WIN!!! They consciously decided to not even try to get their vote because they didn’t think they needed it.......
Can any of you above the age of 30 even contemplate any democrat ever declaring the working man is dead to us? We don’t need them?
Trump made the play and Hillary and the left, just laughed thinking he was just a desperate fool
Very good analysis! I think the way he outworked basically every other presidential candidate in history had a large impact as well. And lets not forget to thank Julian Assange. Honorable mention goes to Michael Moore who attempted to help Hillary Clinton by trying to suck. in Trump supporters by saying he knew how they felt. But he inadvertently outsmarted his own fat a$$ by giving 5 minutes of the best appeal to Midwesterners for Trump of the entire election. And that 5 minutes is all most voters ever saw. Thanks Michael!!!
And as an interesting aside....Trump beat Clinton, in getting the Millennial ( especially the college age voters ) in Wi.! Let me repeat that...IN....WISCONSIN; EVEN IN MADISON ! :-)