Trump Might Have Just Lost Georgia

Burns the Crucial Bridge He Needs for 2024

Winning can often mask underlying weaknesses, a distinction that separates the best from the mediocre. The best understand their gaps and continually strive to improve, even in victory.

Donald Trump believes that he won in 2016 by doing certain things and that if he follows the same template, he will continue to win.

There are two problems with this assumption. First, it presumes that the U.S. media and political landscape remain the same as they were in 2016. However, the media landscape has significantly deteriorated over the past eight years. People no longer read major websites and believe everything broadcasted on cable. While a small portion of people still do, the number of those who view the news with suspicion continues to grow each year.

Hillary Clinton ran a conventional campaign against Donald Trump’s unconventional campaign in 2016 and lost. Even then, she walked away with the national popular vote. She did not design even parts of her campaign with her opponent in mind, which was a strategic failure. Democratic strategists are not going to make the same mistake again. They didn’t in 2018, 2020, and 2022, and they will not revert to the same mistakes they made in 2016.