It was wasted effort but I doubt it cost him any "right-wing" votes. Perhaps he could've gained more of those elusive "suburban moms" had he campaigned tactically. OTOH it's hard to campaign tactically when they can change the election rules at any time and there's no fair playing field.
Oh, I don't think it lost him anything, there was not really a problem with the right-wing base. Though there should have been, given his release of criminals and refusal to act with BLM - possibly out of fear of alienating Blexiteers.
Blexiteers never existed, though. The bigger danger with Trump pulling that shit is that he risks normalizing it throughout conservatism. That will impact more than just one election.
It was wasted effort but I doubt it cost him any "right-wing" votes. Perhaps he could've gained more of those elusive "suburban moms" had he campaigned tactically. OTOH it's hard to campaign tactically when they can change the election rules at any time and there's no fair playing field.
Oh, I don't think it lost him anything, there was not really a problem with the right-wing base. Though there should have been, given his release of criminals and refusal to act with BLM - possibly out of fear of alienating Blexiteers.
Blexiteers never existed, though. The bigger danger with Trump pulling that shit is that he risks normalizing it throughout conservatism. That will impact more than just one election.
Trump lost because of lower margins with college educated White men than in 2016. The only group he did much worse with.
Mail in ballots meant wives could influence their husband's vote, that definitely lost Trump some college white men votes.
Lockdowns and not cracking down on BLM riots also did hurt him with this group.
Also he should taken all the money he wasted on Black outreach and pumped it into ads targetting Latinos and college white men.
That might have given him enough votes to win outside the close margins that allow voter fraud to flip the race.