Examining The GOP Surge in the November 3rd, 2020 Presidential & Nationwide State & Local Elections

Examining The GOP Surge in the November 3rd, 2020 Presidential & Nationwide State & Local Elections,

And Lessons Learned for the January 5th, 2021 Two Runoff US Senatorial Elections in the State of Georgia -- the favorable optics-politics last-minute, pre-election extended coattails of President Donald Trump

I listen to and read the political-party and media political analysts' explanations for -- apart from the hardy Joe Biden presidential win -- the GOP surge in the 11-03-2020 US presidential and nationwide state and local elections, with them all missing a big piece of the cause for the GOP surge and the surprise big boost in the millions of [new] votes for reelection of Donald Trump as US President. That big piece in cause was that despite the period of vacillation of Trump's support for a second COVID-19-related economic stimulus package to aid US households, he eventually vocally repeatedly and consistently urged for and solicited for a substantial one in dollar amount leaning more closely to the multitrillion-dollar package proposed by Democratic Party Speaker of the US House of Representatives Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi than the circa 500-billion-dollar package, with an unacceptable, to Democrats, corporate-power entitlement of immunity from liability for business-related injury or death of employees, proposed by Senate Majority Leader US Senator Mitch McConnell. Although Trump's urged package was a smaller-dollar one, less in dollar-size than House Speaker Congresswoman Pelosi's, it offered to deliver promptly much needed extended unemployment relief compensation and household checks of $1,200.00 per spouse and single adult nationally and Trump could have politically coerced Senate Majority Leader Senator McConnell to negotiate his idea (Trump's), in weeks to days before the presidential and nationwide state and local elections, including their own bids for reelection, with House Speaker Pelosi, who also was a candidate for reelection.

However, House Speaker Congresswoman Pelosi insisted that she would not agree to a smaller stimulus package but would hold out for getting her larger-dollar one passed (legislatively), hopefully but questionably, by both houses of the US Congress (with a GOP majority in the US Senate led by oligarchical-activist and political-party hyper-partisan Senator Mitch McConnell), as only Congress by law can appropriate and legislate funds for federal government allocation and spending, with hers being an economic stimulus package far more generous and beneficial overall for the US middle and under classes, but one to which both President Trump and Senate Majority Leader McConnell were averse, which resulted in a legislative shutdown and no legislative progress and action on appropriating any COVID-19-related stimulus package for households, with 20-million workers unemployed and 12-million more facing the prospect of unemployment before upcoming New Year's Day, 01-01-2021. The idea was already circulating on social media that House Speaker Pelosi should have accepted and presented to the US House of Representatives for a proposed consensus of Democratic Party and GOP votes to pass legislatively an HR economic-package bill of Trump's proposal that Senate Majority Leader Senator Mitch McConnell would be pressured by GOP US President Trump, the GOP and the pending national elections to accept submitting to the Senate for a vote of approval, so as to get an unemployment benefits extension and household, etc., stimulus checks bank wired and mailed to households and adult citizens in general pronto, as close to immediately as possible, in advance of both imminent Thanksgiving and Christmas days. Thereinafter, Democratic Party candidates could have sincerely campaigned in major part for the 11-03-2020 elections on the commitment that with Democratic Party candidates for national elections voted in as President-Vice President and as majorities in both houses of the US Congress their first order of business, with Democrats Biden-Harris elected President-VP and with Democratic Party US Congressional candidates elected as majorities in the US bicameral Congression, upon the inauguration of Joe Biden-Kamala Harris as US President-Vice President on 01-20-2021, thereafter on that day or on the next day, together they would have been able to legislate and enact into law the ideal, complete COVID-19-related legislative economic stimulus package of House Speaker Congresswoman Pelosi, their own such package, which they could have drafted the legislation for during the interregnum period beginning after election-day and ending on inauguration day, 01-20-2021.

But the Democratic Party leaders and candidates forewent this strategy apparently to their sufferance of net losses in Congressional elective offices, so far, in the national elections of 11-03-2020, and Trump increased his allure as a source of helping outreach to an economically maximally distressed population of many millions [of voters, plus] gasping and grasping for any appreciable help, NOW, and not for the ideal deal in the foreboding, uncertain future, that could turn out any which way, even in a nothing result. In this scenario, to the concerned millions of voters the economic relief, for now, was their priority and Trump was more credible and tangible in advocating for it and in willingness to deliver it now and their ally in this regard. It is not too late for the latter part of this strategy to be campaigned on, in sincerity, by the Democratic Party candidates in the remaining runoff US senatorial elections in the state of Georgia, which if won by the Democratic Party candidates, would make for Democratic Party voting majorities in both houses of the US Congress, when the already duly-elected Democratic Party US Vice-President Kamala Harris's tie-breaking senatorial vote is added to the otherwise thereby tied in-number GOP and Democratic Party US senatorial memberships.

The concerned millions of voters, and perhaps millions of more people, face unpaid bills (including utilities in the harsh cold of winter), rents and mortgages and shortages or lack of money for sufficient food as well as transportation and medical supplies and services, etc., now and more so, including loss of housing from evictions from and foreclosures on their residences, in the coming 6 weeks, while a billionaire President and many-millions multimillionaire US Congressional leaders, with no personal financial worries, bicker and squabble about economically helping them, by this much versus that much and this or that nigh, aloof or unknown point in time, and over getting the political credit or depriving political credit to the political opponent or other political party for providing adequate, if only interim, help now. "I can't figure out why so many African American males (20%), Latinx people, [working-class] white females, whom he has a record of respectively reviling or abusing, voted for him, among others?, maybe because I have a thinking malfunction or impediment, I think."