{"id":3939,"date":"2020-12-03T17:09:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T17:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3939"},"modified":"2020-12-03T17:09:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T17:09:35","slug":"the-media-had-4-years-to-figure-out-trump-voters-they-blew-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3939","title":{"rendered":"The Media Had 4 Years to Figure Out Trump Voters. They Blew It."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> &#8220;Given the narrowness of Biden&#8217;s presumed victory, it seems unlikely that Trumpism has been dealt anything resembling a death blow. The GOP will have little reason to shun Trump; on the contrary, given the results in 2016, 2018, and now 2020, one could make the case that the Republican Party performs better with Trump&#8217;s name on the ballot than without it. Those in the mainstream media who continue to fail to understand Trump aren&#8217;t going to get off easy: They just plain have to get better at this, or they will continue to lose ground to their challengers in the alternative media.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/11\/04\/media-trump-shy-voters-polls-wrong-election-2020-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/11\/04\/media-trump-shy-voters-polls-wrong-election-2020-biden\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Given the narrowness of Biden&#8217;s presumed victory, it seems unlikely that Trumpism has been dealt anything resembling a death blow. The GOP will have little reason to shun Trump; on the contrary, given the results in 2016, 2018, and now 2020, one could make the case that the Republican Party performs better with Trump&#8217;s name on the ballot than without it. Those in the mainstream media who continue to fail to understand Trump aren&#8217;t going to get off easy: They just plain have to get better at this, or they will continue to lose ground to their challengers in the alternative media.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,136,170],"class_list":["post-3939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-media","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3940,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939\/revisions\/3940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}