Trump is closer than you think.

My popular 2016 HuffPo piece got many thinking Trump had a chance. I reprise it here because the same uncanny dynamics seem to be in play, except Trump is far closer to Harris than he was to Clinton.

In August of 2016, I published a piece for the far-left and now Trump-deranged Huffington Post explaining that Hillary Clinton's strategy to defeat Trump might not be working, and that Trump was more popular than most Democrats could conceive. It followed up on my earlier HuffPo piece from many months before where I outlined similar observations.

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