Top 5 Reasons Trump’s Victory Should Be No Surprise

2. Trump’s voters had more passion

If you didn’t take the time to watch the candidates’ rallies during this election, you can still find them on YouTube.  The contrast was striking. Trump filled stadiums with thousands of people at every single appearance, with tens of thousands more watching the rallies as they were live-streamed. Clinton did very few rallies, and those she did were sparsely attended, with very few live-stream viewers. Her anemic public appearances during the election did more to convince people that she was deathly ill than that she was the woman to beat for the office of President of the United States.

Also, if you watched Trump’s speeches, he didn’t come off as a complete idiot with no policy ideas. Despite the drumbeat of the “homophobic, Islamophobic, xenophobic” mantra, Trump didn’t come off that way during these rallies over the past few months. He focused on jobs and trade deals, staying on message.

Clinton’s only message to independents seemed to be, “I’m a woman and I’m not Donald Trump.” She refused to hold press conferences. She seemed to be hiding from the electorate. She didn’t go out and earn the confidence of swing voters.