You voted for who you felt was the best candidate. That is all any of us can do. It wasn’t a RP problem but a weak leadership by the Republican Party IMO. If you are connecting with the public no one is going to take your base away.
Feelings are wonderful...but I voted out of ignorance. If I had really understood the consequences of voting for an outsider who had no chance of preventing eight years of Bubba and the millions of lies and the billions in failure that he brought, I would have voted for Bush Sr. in a heartbeat.
Excellent.
I voted RP as well.