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The non-experts knew Trump would win

Political experts and pollsters who wonder how Donald Trump won the presidency and dismissed him as not having a chance to win are out of touch with the real world. They didn't grasp the facts.

Millions of voters are fed up with politics as usual and want to “make America great again” as our goal.

Many of us 50 percent “deplorable” Trump supporters worked in person, with laptops, seven days a week to support Trump because he could, and did, win. My laptop has hundreds of emails and tweets supporting him before he decided to run. This can be confirmed by the newspaper examining it. This is just one unknown example of Trump’s ground game no experts were aware of.

I am sure there were thousands of others supporting Trump in many ways as him being elected is the fruit of our labors.

Wake up experts. Go outside, see the real world, might help you do a better job.

Denny Owens, Myrtle Beach

This story was originally published November 12, 2016 at 10:12 AM with the headline "The non-experts knew Trump would win."

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