Why Trump Lost
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According to Mayer, M. (2020), Trump lost the 2020 elections for four main reasons. First, many voters in sufficient key states were fed up with Trump’s melodramatic behavior. This, Matt Mayer, refers to as the Trump fatigue. More than any other Republican, Trump was an inspiration to many Americans who would cast votes for him in the 2020 election. His inspiration was not enough to overcome the increment of votes that Joe Biden got from democrats and the many who were tired of trump. Despite Trump’s expansion of the republican empire, he alienated vital voters from giving him support for Presidency. I believe citizens at some point want a serious public figure for president. In the past four years, Trump has displayed an overwhelming desire to get noticed through his dramatic and inappropriate behavior, and I believe that people were just tired of him.
Secondly, the mainstream media has had the powerful ability to create a strong anti-republican story that stretches to a vast American audience. Trump’s media coverage was 90% negative, and yet the election was that close. You would imagine how the results would have been if only the media coverage were a little less negative, for instance, 60%. Trump is the only candidate in America who has faced such a constant opposing media. For Republicans to change the current situation, their donors need to invest billions in starting a legitimate competitive news outlet funded and designed for Trump supporters. I agree with Matt Mayer on matters of media coverage. The media commands a great influence on how voters view candidates. When the media is against you, you have the greatest impediment on your back, and winning becomes just a narrative.
Comparing the most recent election with the 2016 elections, we realize that Jill Stein, the candidate with the Green party, secured votes from Hillary Clinton in vital states that resulted in Trump’s victory. The same happened when Jorgensen, a candidate with the libertarian party, took too many votes from Trump in vital states. Particularly in Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, Jorgensen’s total votes bypassed the margins of Joe Biden’s victory by far. Basically, the victory of electoral votes by Joe Biden emanated from the fact that the Libertarian Jorgensen’s participation in the presidential election indirectly helped him. I quite see the truth pointed out by Matt Mayer in that some candidates only scatter votes for other candidates while it’s hard for them to win, just like the case with Jorgensen.
Finally, Atlanta has many democrats, and it has progressively grown to become a big city like the great Chicago. This makes it even harder for Republicans’ victory. For instance, the eight counties of the great Atlanta area provided a 639,000 vote margin to Joe Biden compared to the rest of 21 counties; he got the victory, which only gave him a 144,000 vote margin. Republicans win tremendously in states like New York and Illinois, but the margins attained by the democrats in the Atlanta megacity exceed votes from the other part of the state.