its on the democrats if he does surely
Nope. Whoever the Democrat is will win the popular vote in landslide fashion, as they have all through the current century.
It's because of the electoral college.
Because of that, only a few states matter in national elections.
So what ends up happening is like 500,000 people across 6 or 7 states decide presidents. It's asinine
The electoral college made sense, in theory, when it was implemented over 200 years ago. However, you see how it can be manipulated as it is today.
So when you have one party that has found a way to chip away at the fringes, with a willing and able media outlet aiding and abetting that party to "otherize" the opposition party, you have what you see today - a whole number of states that live in an alternate reality, and the 50/50 states in play
Sad times indeed