Winning every single swing state in what was projected to be a tight election wasn’t the biggest surprise Tuesday. It wasn’t even how quickly the election was decided.
The biggest surprise was Trump appearing to win the popular vote, something a Republican has not done in two decades. GOP strategists explained to the Daily Caller that Trump did so by peeling away from the Democratic base that typically runs up the popular vote total in big cities, specifically by using surrogates to target black and Latino voters.
“When you look at a campaign and the whole idea is shaving away your opponent’s base, Donald Trump did that. If you look at youth vote, black vote, Hispanic vote, men and women, he had gains in all, and then if you look at demographics based off of urban, suburban and rural, Donald Trump gained in urban, suburban and rural,” Trump surrogate Harrison Fields told…
