But those are not the stats which elected Mr Trump, I believe it was the differential of 77k more votes for Mr Trump over 3 states which won the electoral vote.
Can anyone imagine an election won by a margin of under 5k votes? Republican efforts at disenfranchisement typically targets just 5k-10k highly likely Democrat voters. And of course Republicans can now go to the SC and have them stop the count and award an election to their favorite candidate. (Note I did not say Democrat because of the obvious ... )
Newsweek blamed Sanders voters for Trump's win in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
BERNIE SANDERS VOTERS HELPED TRUMP WIN AND HERE'S PROOF
https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-trump-2016-election-654320I blame Hillary herself. Her laziness, from 1 Sep 2016 through 8 Nov 2016 Trump made 116 campaign visits, stops, rallies to 71 for Hillary. That 71 looks larger than it actually was as it includes fund raisers in deep blue California and New York. In Wisconsin it was Trump 5 visits to Hillary's none. That's right none, zero, nadda. In Michigan it was Trump 6 to Hillary's 1. Pennsylvania was closer, 8 for Trump vs. 5 for Hillary. Hillary just let Trump out work and out campaign her. Even in electoral vote rich Florida, 29 electoral votes, it was Trump 13 visits, stops to Hillary's 8.
Whereas Trump geared his campaign to winning the electoral college, Clinton strategy if one want to call getting more electoral votes than Obama a strategy, a very inept one. She spent way too much time, energy, money in trying to win Georgia, Arizona and Utah while ignoring her so called blue wall states. her own backyard.
Then there was the difference in the campaigns, Trump's was full of energy, enthusiasm, his supporters were willing to go to the four corners of the earth for him. Hillary's was more ho hum, lacking of energy and enthusiasm. In the end a lot of her voters weren't energized enough to go to the polls and vote for her.
The Democrats held a 6 point advantage in party affiliation in Nov 2016, but only a 3 point advantage among those who actually voted.
There's plenty of other reasons, but these are the highlights. I firmly believe almost any other democrat, alive or dead would have trounced Trump in 2016. Trump lucked out and drew Hillary, the only democrat that could have possibly lost to him. Even then, everything had to go perfect for Trump, the earth, moon, planets, the sun and even galaxies had to align perfectly for him to win. Somehow they did.
I absolutely blame the Bernie or Bust crowd. Yes, they helped Trump get elected.
Every time I said so there on DP where there are more of them, they all piled up on me to say the cause was Hillary's incompetency.
Well, yes, Hillary is the #1 cause like you said. But the difference in votes was so small that all causes are almost equally responsible for it.
Bernie or Bust. Bernie himself in his obstinacy and his refusal to concede much earlier, when it was already clear that he had no path to the nomination. Hillary's incompetence. Her stupid campaign manager who not only had the worst strategy but also clicked on a phishing email. James Comey's letter. Putin. Wikileaks. Sexism. And so on and so forth. But does that exempt the Bernie or Bust types? Of course not.
Just think of a group charged with conspiracy to commit murder. Say, 5 people. One purchased the murder weapon. The second one purchased the ammunition. The third one delivered the loaded weapon to the killer. The fourth one lured the victim to a back alley. The fifth one, the killer, then pulled the trigger.
Sure, maybe one of them is even guiltier, the 5th one, the killer who pulled the trigger. But each one of the other four played a role, and without their individual actions, the victim would have survived. So, all five are guilty. The guy who bought the ammunition doesn't get to say "oh, my part was small, I shouldn't be charged."
In this analogy Hillary is the guiltiest one, the one who pulled the trigger. This unsympathetic, non-charismatic, low-energy, arrogant, bad campaigner, incompetent candidate was the biggest factor in her own defeat, something I'm sure she doesn't realize.
But ALL other factors are also guilty and without them, Trump wouldn't be president today. The difference in votes in 3 states was so small, that any of these factors, if not present, would have result in Trump's defeat.
So, absolutely, the nincompoops who were Bernie or Bust in 2016 elected Donald Trump, and his 252 federal judges and 2 justices (which could get to 4 by the end of his second term) will hinder and crush their generation for, well, a generation. That serves them right.
