Donald Trump won the 2016 election because most of the voters in swing states preferred him over Hillary Clinton, who was possibly the most disliked major-party nominee in American history.
Democratic politicians and much of the media have refused to accept this fact. Their most common coping mechanism has been to say that somehow, Vladimir Putin — not the voters of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin —made Trump president. The latest evidence, however, indicates that that Putin’s disinformation campaign had approximately zero impact on the 2016 election.Two thirds of Democratic voters in 2018 believed that Russia had literally hacked and stolen the 2016 election.
Democrats then tried to cling to one final strand of consolation: Putin’s disinformation campaign had determined the election. But this cope was all bogus. Russian disinformation during the 2016 campaign reached almost no voters and probably changed approximately zero votes, according to a recent study by six scholars hailing from European universities and NYU.
What’s more, the small slice that saw most of the Russian disinformation was overwhelmingly very partisan Republicans, according to this study.
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