Here is why Liberals are not fully happy with the 2020 results:

Their writers and pundits spent years yelling that @realDonaldTrump is divisive and racist and that he won 2016 due to middle America whites who are racists. The Leftists also claimed that changing demographics will
be Trump’s undoing and it will take down the whole GOP with him. Trump however increased his 2020 vote total by 15% from 2016 thanks to help from monitories while Biden won due to vote of the aforementioned whites who Libs claimed are racists. Worse, Biden’s electoral margin
will echo Trump’s margin of 2016 or less (depending how GA and AZ end up), and this was during a pandemic; during an economic downturn; with a mass mail-in vote system that massively favors Dems, and despite tech companies choking off conservative voices in ways not done to Libs.
4/ The vibe was so in place for a massive Trump/GOP wipe out that @JohnKingCNN said election night that Texas is a swing state this cycle. Trump won it 5+ points.

Libs were so sure that they have a serious shots against Graham, Collins, @SenJoniErnst and @senatemajldr etc, that
5/ Libs spent 100s of millions on just those races but in the end all those GOPers won easily. A night before the election, Charles Cook said that Dems will pick up anywhere from 3 to 7 Senate seats; however Dems need a double GA runoff win to have won just 3 seats this cycle.
6/ It gets worse for Dems: The @SenateGOP ended the 2014 midterms with 54 seats. After Trump ”dragging the party down” in 2016, 2018 and 2020, and after Dems/their Super PACs outspending the GOP, the GOP is at 52 seats (two of which are up for runoffs in early January).
7/ Now let’s move to @HouseDemocrats: Monday pre-election day, @redistirct of @CookPolitical predicted a net Dem pick up of 10-15 seats. Dems lost at least 6 seats.

Clinton’s first midterm, Dems lost 54 Seats.

Obama, Dems lost 63.

Trump’s midterm, the GOP lost only 41 seats.
8/ “But Yossi. Gerrymandering helps the GOP with House seats.”

True that it matters but in 2018 midterms, Dems won 53.4% of the votes given in House races while in Obama’s 2010 midterm the GOP won 51.7%.

Hardly a massive rejection of Trump in the mid-term compared to Obama.
9/ It gets worse: Cook Political predicted a week out that Dems will gain a net of 6 state legislative houses which would be an amazing win because congressional redistricting are coming up for the 2022 midterms. Dems lost 2 which may be offset in AZ. So at best no gain for Dems.
10/ Whats more, Dems lost state legislative seats including in NY where the drubbing was so bad that @NYGovCuomo blamed @BilldeBlasio for it. This is a sad joke considering that most of the Dem hits in NY were outside of NYC.
11/ None of the above changes the fact that even IF he loses AZ/GA, Biden is on path to be certified as POTUS-elect due to PA and a win is a win. Once in office, Biden runs shop just as JFK, Carter and Bush II did despite their narrow wins. However, the overall results of
12/ the 2020 elections shows that the buzzwords and narratives that were written in the NYT and repeated on @Morning_Joe for the last 5 years are totally disconnected from reality. The 2020 results show that the “great” strategy by @HouseDemocrats @SenateDems and @TeamJoe
13/ regarding minorities did not work because - again - Biden won thanks to middle America whites while minorities moved to the GOP in ways not seen in decades thus keeping Trump’s loss narrow in the electoral count and regarding the margins within swing states.
14/ Don’t expect the Machine Media (who peddled years of anti Trump conspiracies; who fortold a mass GOP wipeout in 2020, and who ran interference for Biden’s anger outbursts, gaffes, racists remarks and contradictory policy proposals) to echo the above facts. They will in large
15/ part continue with their talk of “Trump enablers” despite the fact that millions of voters reelected those “enablers” and gave the GOP a list of wins in a year that they were going to be wiped out and be rebuilt by the Lincoln Project clowns.
16/ The above-listed 2020 outcomes may matter in terms of the legislative agenda the next two years especially if the GOP keeps the Senate and if the elected House/Senate GOPs keep those facts in front of their eyes instead of falling for media propaganda the next 2 years.
17/ What must make the McCain/Romney wing of the GOP sick is to look at the hits the GOP took in 2008/2012 versus what happened now with Trump atop of the ticket.

First off: McCain/Romney never won the WH. 😃

Now compare McCain 2008 and @MittRomney 2012 to Trump 2020
18/

Popular vote margins:

7.2 loss for McCain

3.9 loss for Romney

3.5-4.0 range for Trump 2020 (NY/CA need to offload their ballots).

House:

21 seat loss McCain

8 lost Romney

6 gain (or more) Trump 2020.

GOP ended with 199 seats after McCain 2008; now they are above.
19/

Senate:

8 seats lost in McCain 2008 (after Bush midterms lost 6; not the same seats of course. Senate terms are 6 years).

2 lost in Romney 2012

1-3 lost in Trump 2020.

GOP ended McCain 2008 with 41 Senate seats.

@MittRomney with 45.

Now they have at least 50 seats.
20/ The McCain/Romney GOP was rejected by voters while Trumpism (no wars; lower tax; stronger border controls; America First trade deals and a Conservative judiciary) was embraced in 2016 and reinforced in 2020 with the help of minorities while Biden barely won thanks to whites.
21/ Flawed polls and media propaganda help energize Dems while it demoralizes GOPers. These things lead to election outcomes and as @Cernovich noted: @HouseGOP’s ran from the field in 2018 because “the GOP will lose seats” but those resignations caused losses as it opened seats.
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