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Jiang says Trump may believe he must play along with the deep state and go to war because he thinks the deep state rigged 2020 against him for refusing wars.
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2020 Election
Jiang says Trump may believe he must play along with the deep state and go to war because he thinks the deep state rigged 2020 against him for refusing wars.
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Jiang frames Biden's 2020 victory as numerically large in popular votes but structurally narrow because the Electoral College margin could be described as roughly 65,000 key-state votes.
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Jiang argues that suburban voters tend to prefer status quo, conservative, unifying leadership, which made Biden's steady establishment image attractive in 2020.
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Jiang says Biden appeared hopeless in early 2020 because he lacked charisma, ideas, and campaign energy, but remained in the race without a clear strategic explanation.
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Jiang says he would have expected Trump to beat Biden in 2020 because Trump could draw huge rallies and dominate debates while Biden put audiences to sleep.
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Jiang argues that George Floyd protests and the pandemic unexpectedly allowed Biden to win: voters were galvanized against Trump, Trump could not campaign normally, and Biden could stay in his basement.
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"And that's good for Trump because she's a scapegoat now. Right? Trump can say, hey, this war, it's all Nikki Haley's fault. Right? Okay?..."
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"Okay, so let's begin class. And today we are discussing whether or not Trump will win in November. And I'm making the prediction that..."
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"Assuming that if 65,000 people in key battleground states flip their votes, then Trump would have won. Okay, so the margin of victory was..."
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"Because if you live in the suburbs, you tend to be middle class, you tend to be pretty wealthy and more educated. So you..."
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"Okay? And the answer is this. If you look at 2020, everyone thought that Biden could not get the nomination. Okay? Why? Because he..."
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"Because Trump's going to go out there and give speeches to 100,000 people. And they're going to love him. And they're going to go..."
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"hey, if I just sit in my basement all day and make no mistakes, my surrogates, the Democrats, they're going to be like, what?..."
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"...mind robbed him of power in 2022. Remember, for Trump, the 2020 elections were stolen from him. It's something that he's been adamant about..."
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A June 2024 lecture arguing that the next American civil war will not repeat 1861.
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A dated May 2024 election model: Biden's 2020 coalition weakens, the suburbs become the hinge, and Trump can win by turning Nikki Haley from enemy into evidence that he has changed.
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