Failed 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton spent the three years after her defeat providing anyone who would give her an audience some two dozen different excuses why she did not win. As such, she has wound up, as one pundit said recently, caricatured and largely irrelevant.
President Donald Trump, if he continues after he leaves office his mantra about the election being stolen, could find himself in the same boat as the woman he berated for doing the same thing after her loss.
But Clinton had something the president never did – the full-throated, pull-out-all-the-stops support of the national media.
What if the Republican Trump had had even a neutral media, one that gave him credit where credit was due and investigated Democratic challenger Joe Biden where investigation was necessary?
Media Research Center, a conservative watchdog organization, tested that theory recently in a poll of 1,750 voters in seven swing states.