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2. But Wisconsin would have mattered only if he lost elsewhere, such as Michigan and Pennsylvania

Reply to moose65 (Original post)

Wed Dec 9, 2020, 02:43 PM

Dec 2020

If Wisconsin gone the other way and everything else was the same, Donnie would still have won. We needed to win all three.

It's only after you flip Michigan and Pennsylvania that you can then say Wisconsin is all we needed. Any way you cut it, we needed 77-78k votes in the right places.

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Trump's win in 2016 [View all] moose65 Dec 2020 OP

Trump called it "a massive landslide victory," even though it was as close as you say, and he Doodley Dec 2020 #1

But Wisconsin would have mattered only if he lost elsewhere, such as Michigan and Pennsylvania unblock Dec 2020 #2

I'm saying that Michigan and Pennsylvania were icing on the cake moose65 Dec 2020 #3

ok, but then, any two of the 3 states could be considered "icing on the cake" unblock Dec 2020 #4