US Presidential Election 2020: Why Donald Trump Lost!

The US election of 2016 was a historic accident and a deviation from the normalcy of the US, a misconception that many remember, that the 2020 election should bury him forever.

Donald Trump received nearly 70 million votes, the second-highest in American history.

Trump received more than 48 percent of the total vote in the country. He seems to have won in 24 states - including his favorite states of Florida and Texas.

He has a different image in America which is spread across the country, many people worship him.

In his four years in the White House, Trump's supporters have scrutinized many aspects of his presidency and accepted all of his terms with great enthusiasm.

Today, in 2020, the analysis of any of Trump's political weaknesses, as well as his political strengths, will come under discussion.

Whatever it is, however, Trump has lost, and he is one of the four men of the modern age who did not win a second term.

Not only that, he is the first US president to lose the popular vote for the second time in a row.

Trump won in 2016 because he was thought to be breaking with tradition and out of politics, and he dared to say something no one else had ever said.

But it can also be said that Trump lost in 2020, because he was someone who came out of politics and was ready to say something that no one could have said before.

It's like his widely condemned arrogance that if Trump had shot someone on Fifth Avenue in New York, most of his fans would have voted for him.

But a section of those who supported him four years ago have again backtracked on Trump's ruthless behavior.

This is especially true in the case of suburbs.

Joe Biden has done better in 363 suburban counties than his predecessor, Hillary Clinton. And that saved him from defeat in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, and wins in Georgia and Arizona.

Donald Trump has not been able to take advantage of women's support in suburban areas.

What we saw in the mid-2018 elections has been repeated in the 2020 presidential election.

The highly educated Republicans who voted for Trump four years ago were willing to give him another chance - even though he wasn't exactly presidential. They knew that Trump would not be exactly like the others. But the way he broke one custom after another was offensive to many.

They moved away because of his aggressive behavior. Because of its fueling racist tensions. Ignoring blacks, because of his tweets using racist words. Many times because of his failure to condemn white hegemony.

Pushing away America's traditional allies, or praising authoritarians like Vladimir Putin, has not gone unnoticed by many.

As strange as it was to assert himself as a "very stable genius", he supported conspiracy theories.

He spoke as if he were a 'crime boss' - sounding like a criminal. For example, he described Michael Cohen, a former lawyer of his own, as a 'rat' or rat.

Then there is the behavior that Trump's critics have described as his outspoken authoritarianism, and that has been seen since the election when he refused to accept the results.

In Pittsburgh, I was talking about Chuck Hawenstein during the election campaign. In 2016, he was a supporter of Trump, this time he voted for Joe Biden.

''People are actually tired,'' he was telling me. "They all want to see the country return to normalcy. They want to see decency. They want to see that hatred stops. They want to see a united nation. And all of this will bring Joe Biden to the presidency."

One of Trump's political failures is that he has not been able to take his support beyond the main 'Trump base' or his own hardliners.

Didn't even try quite a bit.

Trump won 30 states in 2016, but he has ruled as if he is the only conservative, red American president.

No other president in America in the last 100 years has caused so much division. And the 20 states that voted for Hillary Clinton did not even try to draw the blue states closer to her.

After four long years, many voters want someone who will run the White House according to tradition.

They were annoyed by Trump's childish abuse, bad language, and endless conflict. He wanted a kind of normalcy to return.

But the 2020 election is not a repeat of the 2018 election.

This time Trump was in power, no one outside.

This time he had to speak in support of his actions. In particular, the coronavirus situation, which he could not handle well, and the epidemic that killed more than 230,000 people by election day.

It was difficult to make Joe Biden a monster - for many other reasons, Democratic leaders were eager to get him as a candidate.

The 6-year-old moderate was chosen for another reason - he brought the working people's vote to the northeastern states of the United States, known as the Rust Belt.

Why did Trump lose the presidential election? - Even more interesting and debatable than this question is when exactly Trump lost.

Is it right after the 2016 election, when those who voted for him in part as a protest against Washington's political players were confused? Many of them did not expect Trump to win the presidential election.

Isn't it within 24 hours of his coming to power - when he delivered the inaugural address to the "American Assassination", in which he described the United States as a country where factories have closed, workers have lost their jobs, and middle-class wealth has been taken away?

And that's all he said about how many people were at the opening ceremony and that he would use Twitter - before saying that.

Before the sun set on the first day of Trump's presidency, it became clear that he would change the presidency much more than it would change him.

Or is it a combination of many more - scandals, accusations, tumbling and chaos of one's own staff?

Or is it the result of the coronavirus, the biggest crisis of his entire presidency?

Trump's political indicators were quite strong before the coronavirus came to America. He passed the impeachment trial, his support being 49 percent - the highest ever.

A strong economy and staying in power are two things that usually help a president to run for a second term.

One key question in any presidential election is - is the country now in a better position than it was four years ago?

But in the meantime, Covid came, along with the economic crisis - making it very difficult to give a positive answer to that question.

But it would be wrong to say that Trump lost only because of the coronavirus.

Presidents often go to great lengths to deal with national crises. Crisis often makes many great.

This was true in the case of Franklin Delano Roosevelt - he was able to take himself to an invincible position in the way he saved America from the Great Depression.

Similarly, the initial steps taken by George W. Bush after the 9/11 attacks increased his popularity - which helped him win a second term.

So it goes without saying that Covid did not actually end up with Donald Trump, but rather the way he dealt with the crisis has led to his downfall.

But it is also important to remember that Trump survived politically until the very last moment - even though the country was in its worst public health crisis in 100 years, the worst economic crisis since the 1930s, and the most widespread ethnic unrest since the 1980s.

'Red' America, known for its support of the Republican Party, and a large section of the Conservatives under its influence wanted him back in power.

In the coming days, Donald Trump will be in an important position in the conservative movement. Trumpism may have been just as influential as Reaganism among American conservatives.

He will remain a strong polarizing figure, and may even run for president again in 2024.

The United States in this isolated state did not suddenly unite, not least because so many Americans have different feelings about Trump - from devotion to extreme hatred.

So has the United States heard or seen its last unconventional president? The sure answer is no.

Source: BBC Bangla