First politician to lose support and gain 12m voters. You people are off your rockers. They changed the rules in the last 5 months before an election (illegally in most states) not because he wasn’t popular but because it was obvious his GOTV operation was going to be completely unmatched in 2020. Trump didn’t benefit from mail in voting and got 74m votes. He was too dangerous to the system in a less constrained second term. He was clear that Europe and China were on his hit list. They destroyed the country because they knew he’d win. Absolutely destroyed it. The rule of law isn’t even a thing anymore. That’s how far they went.
The GOP had exactly the same opportunity to leverage mail-in voting, absentee voting and ballot harvesting, but threw its lot behind the false hope they’d make up the deficits on Election Day. We don’t have to like mail-in and absentee voting, and we can hate the idea of ballot harvesting, but those are the conditions on the ground and they aren’t going away.
As for Trump, many of his endorsees lost elections in 2022 that should’ve been won. The sooner it’s understood he doesn’t command the narrative like his supporters wish he did doesn’t change that fact.