John Nichols, national affairs correspondent for The Nation, said Democrats almost blew their chances in the Midwest because they underestimated President Trump’s strategy for the end of the campaign.
“The bottom line here is they completely missed the fact that when Trump talks to you, he often tells you what he’s going to do,” Nichols said.
Nichols said that the president clearly had a strategy to rally voters to go vote toward the end of the campaign, and “worked it with everything he had.”
“He was literally doing rallies in Wisconsin and Michigan after nightfall on Monday night, and so he knew where he was pulling his people out,” he said. “The Democrats should have anticipated that much more.”
Nichols then said that Democrats had a good strategy by mobilizing their followers via social media to get more people to vote.
“There is a flexibility on the part of some of these parties that’s a good thing, and that’s something they did right,” he said.
Nichols said that in order to compete in the Midwest, parties have to have a traditional, pro-labor message that translates across all demographics.
The key midwestern states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin were still counting votes early Wednesday afternoon and have not declared a winner in the presidential race, though Democrats signaled optimism about Joe Biden’s chances.
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