Editorial: The enduring support for Donald J. Trump
by The Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times
Nov 06, 2020
3 minutes
President Donald Trump, whether or not he wears that title past Inauguration Day, managed to do something we hadn't expected before Election Day: He brought in more voters than in 2016.
It's not that anyone predicted a Joe Biden landslide. But the former vice president's supporters had expected a more decisive repudiation of a president who has lied repeatedly, pandered to conspiracy theorists and far-right hooligans, undermined science and botched the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in myriad ways. There were indeed people who abandoned Trump —
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