re: #283 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Nobody did, not even himself. But some GOP strategists figured out that they could win with him.

Michael Moore pointed it out as early as the summer of 2016, but he was correct.

It was all in the mathematics of the EC: all Trump had to do was carry all the states that Romney won in 2012 (no problem there) plus the four Rust Belt states of PA, OH, MI and WI. With those votes, he would not even need Florida.

The GOP concentrated their efforts on those four states and won them all by paper-thin margins, generally less than the total of disenfranchised or Independent voters.

Moore contributed to that imo. He owns some of this.