Yep. Wrong candidate, wrong timing, wrong zeitgeist. And a staff that let him walk into every pothole on the road.
He felt it was his coronation time and he didn’t have to give much thought to what was going on with the voters. Hence his brilliant decision that he could win “without the base.”....meaning he was more in tune with rinos and sucking up to foreigners, and would not have to pretend to be interested in anything remotely conservative