I don't know who voted for Trump in the first place. I usually vote Republican and I didn't vote for him.
I've wondered the same thing. I'm a self described fiscal conservative and social moderate, never voted for a Dem for national office in my life (voted for several at the Gubernatorial level) and I never even considered voting for Trump. My guess is that a lot of people just can't stand the Clintons and voted for Trump because they didn't want to see 4-8 years of that old hag. The fact that Trump's approval rating has been in the tank ever since he took office reinforces my opinion.
I have no idea what Trumper's think. I lost a lot of money believing polls the last election.
I hear that a lot, that the polls were wrong, when in fact is not true, or at least not entirely true. As a matter of fact, the national polls nailed it as they predicted that Clinton would win by 2%, which is exactly the way the election broke. But as we all know, the election isn't decided by the popular vote. State wide polling is much more difficult to forecast than polling nation wide, but even so, the critical swing states, only WI showed a mild surprise. The week before the election in PA, Clinton was up by 1.9% and Trump won by 1.2%. In Michigan, Clinton was up 3.4 percent and ended up losing by .23%. Those are both well within the margin of error. In WI Clinton was up 6.5% and Trump ended up winning by .7%, but one has to keep in mind that those were week old numbers and HRC never set foot in WI during her entire campaign, allowing Trump to run barefoot through the entire state.
I wouldn't bet on Trump winning or losing since it's far too hard to call. Some people keep making it seem like Hilary's status caused her to lose and I don't buy it. She wasn't Obama, but the first female candidate with strong support from her party, the female vote, and the Clinton lovers that still exist should have made her a near shoe-in Also Trump beat highly established and politically powerful Republicans in the primaries backed by more money and grassroots than Trump with better names. Trump is a wild card. I don't care how many polls people pull out of their behinds to support him losing or winning, I wouldn't put any money on it. That's for sure.
Well, I'm not going to be money on it, either. I didn't think Trump had a snowball's chance in hell of winning the election and since I'd mailed off my ballot weeks before the election, had sort of fell asleep and I quit following it until election night. But I do think that he'll be easy to beat in 2020, and I base that on the fact that Trump has had such meager support during his first year in office, usually a honeymoon for most newly elected POTUS's. That's why I think that HRC had a very large negative effect on the Dems. If Trump won by means of his own popularity, he wouldn't be getting historically bad job performance numbers.
Sorry for those that want to hate the man or think of him as a dolt that somehow got lucky and won the presidency. I don't buy any of that crap. Just sour grapes by those against him. I admire highly successful people that get what they want against all odds. It's one of the reasons I admire FDR and Obama, just to be sure it isn't along party lines. Some men just have such a will, drive, and ability to get what they want, it's hard not to admire it. I'd love to have that level of ambition and drive.
I don't "hate" Trump, either. I have a much narrower definition of that term than many. But I have very little respect for the man. IMO he's a spoiled rich kid that's used to getting nearly everything he's ever wanted by simply flashing his money or his name. It's not that I dislike anyone that's grown up privileged. But when you combine privilege with arrogance as is the case with Trump, I seem to have less respect for them than I do a person that's simply arrogant.
I don't think that Trump "got lucky" and won the Presidency anymore than I think that the Seahawks "got lucky" and won a Lombardi. But Trump did have some stars line up for him, in particular, his opponent's incompetent way in which she ran her campaign.