Trump staffer turned critic Mick Mulvaney thinks Donald Trump lost over 200,000 votes in Georgia due to mean tweets criticizing the likes of Governor Brian Kemp and the late John McCain.
“Trump has a knack for subtracting [voters],” the former South Carolina congressman asserted, despite the fact that his former boss added at least 10.1 million voters in 2020, landing the highest number of votes of any sitting president ever. In fact, Trump added 18 percent in Georgia alone, where Mulvaney – a former Tex Mex restaurant manager – claims he lost voters due to issues like “his flogging of McCain’s corpse”.
“The former president is really good at subtraction and division – and really, really lousy at addition,” Mulvaney quipped, claiming he personally warned Trump that there was no upside to “his flogging of McCain’s corpse” and that is could hurt him “say, in Arizona, a state that Trump won by just 90,000 votes in 2016 and then lost by 10,000 in 2020.”
“That is Trump subtraction,” Mulvaney suggested – though in fact, Trump won 1.2 million votes in Arizona in 2016 and almost 1.7 million in 2020. Similarly, Mulvaney suggested, “Trump beat Hillary Clinton by more than 200,000 votes in Georgia in 2016 [and] lost by the now infamous 11,779 votes [in 2020]…. Subtraction.” Here, too, Trump won near 2.1 million votes in 2016 and near 2.5 million votes in 2020 – almost 400,000 additional votes, rather than a “subtraction” of voters.
Trump has long contended the true cause of his defeat in the Peach State was poor election integrity. Governor Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger have refused to address major, documented issues with Georgia’s voting processes, with Raffensperger’s spokesman recently going as far as telling PhD scientists who raised concerns “tough noogies”.