westrock2000
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By pitting a favored political candidate against one who has no political background and is disliked by they majority,
If you exclude the following I suppose it's fair to say he was disliked by the majority and is the most unpopular presidential candidate of all time.
- Received more votes in the Republican primary than any other candidate. Despite receiving almost zero support from the party.
- Received the most amount of votes of any Republican candidate in the general election.
- Received more electoral votes than any recent Republican candidate (have to go back to 1988 Bush Sr).
- Considering the 18 month onslaught he went through to achieve that.
- Only Mrs. Clinton and Obama received more votes then him (and yet he's the one targeted as having racist voters).
- That while the "favored political candidate" was cancelling rallies due to turnout or relying on celebrity attendance, Trump was smashing the attendance both in physical attendance as well as online viewers (10K-30K on average watching EACH rally he did on YouTube).
- Subtracting just 2 counties (Los Angeles & Cook) from BOTH candidates numbers puts Trump ahead on the popular vote. 2 counties.
- As illustrated by these 2 maps:
So excluding those pieces of information I can see why people are perplexed that he was able to win. #notmypresident
If you do not want to accept or acknowledge the real reasons he won, then any reason is valid.