Close enough margins any one small thing could have swung it. Lin Wood’s calls to boycott with the national media trumpeting those comments in an effort to depress GOP turnout also probably had an impact. Probably didn’t effect 95%+ of the GOP voters...but it only takes a very small handful to swing a close election.
The President should have insisted on the $2k checks if it was that important to him at the start of the negotiations, not after the bill was already passed...even coordinated with the GOP candidates to take the lead on insisting on that...instead, it was co-opted by the Democrat candidates as their issue.
“ The President should have insisted on the $2k checks if it was that important to him at the start of the negotiations”
I’m not going to argue with you there