Trump’s fraud accusations make no sense. The suburbs, not the cities, are why he lost

President Donald Trump continues to carry on with his unfounded charade claiming the election was wide-scale fraud. At the heart of many of his campaign’s complaints is that the big cities in the Great Lakes (Rust Belt) battleground states, such as Detroit and Philadelphia, helped to “engineer” a certain outcome.

What Trump and his campaign don’t seem to realize is that the cities (Detroit, Philadelphia and Milwaukee) in the three most important Great Lakes battlegrounds (Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin) were not responsible for President-elect Joe Biden’s improvement compared with Hillary Clinton. Biden won in large part because of a dramatic improvement in the suburbs surrounding the major cities in these states. CONTINUED

Harry Enten, CNN


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