(1/12) The outcome of the #2020Election was statistically implausible.

“First, President @realDonaldTrump received more votes than any previous incumbent seeking reelection. He got 11 million more votes than in 2016, the third largest rise in support ever for an incumbent.
(2/12) By way of comparison, President @BarackObama was comfortably reelected in 2012 with 3.5 million fewer votes than he received in 2008.

@realDonaldTrump earned the highest share of all minority votes for a Republican since 1960 (more than a half century ago).
(3/12) @realDonaldTrump grew his support among black voters by 50% over 2016. Nationally, Joe Biden’s black support fell well below 90%, the level below which Democratic presidential candidates usually lose.

Trump increased his share of the national Hispanic vote to 35%.
(4/12) With 60% or less of the national Hispanic vote, it is arithmetically impossible for a Democratic presidential candidate to win Florida, Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico. Bellwether states swung further in @realDonaldTrump’s direction than in 2016.
(5/12) Florida, Ohio and Iowa each defied America’s media polls with huge wins for @realDonaldTrump. Since 1852, only Richard Nixon has lost the Electoral College after winning this trio, and that 1960 defeat to John F. Kennedy is still the subject of great suspicion.
(6/12) Midwestern states Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin always swing in the same direction as Ohio and Iowa, their regional peers. Ohio likewise swings with Florida. Current tallies show that, outside of a few cities, the Rust Belt swung in @realDonaldTrump’s direction.
(7/12) Yet, @JoeBiden leads in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin because of an apparent avalanche of black votes in Detroit, Philadelphia, and Milwaukee.
(8/12) Biden’s ‘winning’ margin was derived almost entirely from such voters in these cities, as coincidentally his black vote spiked only in exactly the locations necessary to secure victory.
(9/12) He did not receive comparable levels of support among comparable demographic groups in comparable states, which is highly unusual for the presidential victor.

We are told that @JoeBiden won more votes nationally than any presidential candidate in history.
(10/12) But he won a record low of 17% of counties; he only won 524 counties, as opposed to the 873 counties @BarackObama won in 2008. Yet, @JoeBiden somehow outdid Obama in total votes.
(11/12) Victorious presidential candidates, especially challengers, usually have down-ballot coattails; @JoeBiden did not. The Republicans held the Senate and enjoyed a ‘red wave’ in the House, where they gained a large number of seats while winning all 27 toss-up contests.
(12/12) @realDonaldTrump’s party did not lose a single state legislature and actually made gains at the state level.”

— Patrick Basham

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