For David Reel, Talbot County’s Republican Central Committee Chair, it is remarkably complex to analyze the results of the 2020 election. That’s due in part to the surprisingly unpredictable swings in voter behavior in Talbot County over the last three election cycles, starting with 2016.
In 2016, Talbot County voted for Donald Trump by nearly 2,000 votes, and saw even greater success with Larry Hogan in 2018, but also in that same year a significant defeat for Congressman Andy Harris by challenger Jesse Colvin. And now, Reel’s county decided to go with Biden-Harris by only 116 votes.
What gives?
In his interview with the Spy earlier this week, David Reel analyzes these very different outcomes with only limited success. David discusses the failure this year of having a serious national conversation about public policy, the mainstream media’s treatment of Trump, and the growing number of moderate voters in Talbot County.
This video is approximately seven minutes in length.
Jill Ferrier says
I disagree, I think Biden’s message was clear. Deal with Covid head on, rebuild America by dealing with the financial mess and trying to bridge the divide in our country.
Debra Sherwood says
Geeze, Louise on David Reel’s take on Trump losing the election hit a nerve. Wow, Trump’s personality seems to be the latest fad excuse as to why he lost the election. He didn’t lose because of his personality. He lost because he’s been seemingly mentally unstable during his term. It hurt him that he played footsies with Putin, and Kim Jong-Un, called our brave military folks suckers and losers. And why did he have that weird vendetta with Obama and John McCain. The country wanted to hear what Trump was going to do not what others did or didn’t do. Remember his wonderful better health care plan that never happened. What about all his lies? Is that his personality or is he just a habitual liar too? COVID wow that was a whopper lie he told the American people. One black American said it best, when she said “ It feels to me as if Donald Trump has made racism fashionable again”. I felt it too. And those words were spoken long before the civil unrest began over the George Floyd murder. And lest we forget the global warming issue that he scoffed at. Children in cages now orphaned? Personality and Mentally warped is not the same thing. Come down out of your ivory partisan tower and you might learn a few things. As a Democrat I’ve voted for as many republicans as I have democrats. What say you on that subject? Let this sink in sir, Non Partisan is what the people of our great nation want. Personality my foot, you know why he lost and there’s no sugar coating that.
MARCIA C FIDIS says
The comment by Debra Sherwood hit the nail on the head. There were endless reasons that even some of us Republicans could not vote for Trump including his inability to tell the truth on almost any subject at anytime, his insistence on manufacturing an alternative reality on almost every subject (“Trump’s fairytales” would fill volumes), his demeaning invective and name-calling directed at anyone who dared to hold a different opinion, his schoolyard-bully attitude, his narcissism, his endless negative tweeting of insults when he should have been developing policies to protect us from COVID and otherwise attending to presidential duties, etc. etc. etc. Those who did not vote for Trump were proved right by the continued lack of judgment he has shown post-election: more destructive rants and fairytales about “rigged” elections. These have been such a SAD four years for our country and for the Republican Party and for anyone who cares about democracy. How much damage Trump has done to each remains to be seen.
Marcia Fidis
Bryan G McGrath says
Sorry, Mr. Reel–you can’t have it both ways. Trump was elected BECAUSE of his personality, and four years of his personality in our lives every day was all we could take. I left the GOP in May of 2016 because of him, and I will not be back unless the party walks away from the dumpster fire of nationalist/populism.