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Originally Posted by Deuces McKracken
Unemployment was low and, after a bizarre lag, wages had started to increase in response. That's how I am judging the economy. If you look at the exit polls you can clearly see that Biden got a lot of votes based on the expectation his regime would handle covid better.
The economy was okay. If Trump was a typical POTUS that started office with 55% approval and muddled around between +3 and -3 net approval for 4 years he would have probably been something like a 2:1 favorite. But he literally never had a + average at any point in his approval polling.
He also barely won the first time with low vote total in key states (PA, WI, MI). Like Tammy Baldwin got more votes in WI in the 2018
midterm than Trump got to win it in 2016. I don't think that has ever happened in US history before in a state the president carried and was a major warning sign for Trump's chances. That you are sure Trump would have won if not for Covid just shows how shallow your thinking is. Nobody who knows even the basics about US elections could make that declaration.
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Trump was exonerated by the Mueller report. The strategy of confronting Trump with a bunch of damn lies was forced by Trumps populist rhetoric for which the Democrats had no substantive reply. Then Trump's tax cuts and neocon foreign policy passed with little judgement.
Trump was not exonerated as Mueller clearly said. If they were confident Trump committed no crimes, they would have said so. They were unable to make that declaration after investigating.
You're of course also leaving out the fact that Trump got impeached for threatening to withhold taxpayer money congress released to a foreign nation until they made an announcement of a sham investigation into a political opponent resulting in the first ever vote to convict a President by a Senator from his own party.