The election was determined by a brutal political environment defined by historically bad right-track/wrong-track numbers and economic dissatisfaction that created nearly insurmountable headwinds for

“I think you hit on the most important point which this is a brutal political environment like and this is the polling was telling this this for years now 34 of Voters think the country's on the wrong track 2third are unhappy with the economy”

The result is better explained by voters' frustration with the administration and economic conditions than by a genuine ideological embrace of Trumpism.

“this looks much less like a vote for Trump than a vote against uh people's frustrations with the current Administration and the current economic conditions than it does like any kind of embrace of trumpism”