I *think* he was trying to say, if he’s elected he’ll fix the corruption or being about. Reagan-like change of heart such that the Good Guys will always win because it’ll always be a fair election.
But that isn’t true. The devil is the Prince of Lies. He’s pretty powerful that way. Indeed, we got 8 years of Clinton, Obama, and Bush. While the Dem Machine is never asleep, I’m pretty comfortable that these elections weren’t tipped by The Machine.
Furthermore, it really, doesn’t take much nowadays - every election from 2004 through 2020 (sans 2008) was decided by 500,000 votes or less.
Yesterday, Gen.Blather wrote that his Uncle who was big in Ohio Repub circles said “ said, each party candidate will attract about forty percent of the total vote. It doesn’t matter who they are, whether they’re good candidates or even if they’re dead. They get forty percent. All elections are a fight for the necessary eleven percent to make 51%”
He’s a smart man.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_elections_by_popular_vote_margin
Since Reagan’s landslide in 1984, the popular vote margin ranged from a high of 8.51% for Clinton to a low of -2.09% for Trump.
Further, since 2004 every election except for 2008 it has been a close election/it comes down to the handful of states that tip the Electoral Collage scale to the winner:
- In Trump’s win in 2016, his cumulative winning margin in the tipping point states of Wi, Mi, and PA was 77,444 votes.
-In Biden’s case, his tipping point margin was about 40k votes.
-Obama in 2012, it was about 500k votes.
-Bush in 2004, about 16k votes.
All this campaigning and rallies and debates blah blah blah…it all comes down in general to beating the other guy (or gal) by less than 100,000 votes.
Trump can change the hearts of the skeptical. But verbal clusters like this mess things up.
Electoral votes are not by percentage. The number is 271. In this country we do not elect presidents by popular vote. So that number (or percentage) is meaningless.