The Captain’s Battlegrounds

Joe Biden incredibly outperforms Barack Obama for total votes in a state with declining population, even though his opponent gains an incredible 301,000 net votes from 2016.

Colorado strangely has a tremendous Democrat enthusiasm spike in 2020, despite a massive Trump gain in suburban GOP strongholds and heavy minority counties, in a state that has had mail-in balloting for three elections leading up to 2020.

The Old Dominion has every indication of a strong rightward trend in 2020, but Joe Biden manages to ride a mail-in ballot quasi election to the largest Democrat win in Virginia since 1944.

The Cheney family does its best to damage Trump in the 2020 election, but the state trends another 3% more Republican in registrations and Trump adds a record total of net new votes. How did Joe Biden finish with more votes than Barack Obama with Democrats being destroyed in the frontier states?

West Virginia is in full tilt MAGA mode, but somehow comes up 3% short of 2016 margins despite a loss of more than 101,000 Democrat registrations leading into the 2020 election.

Donald Trump has the highest percentage vote gain in distant Hawaii of any state in the 2020 election, yet winds up losing the state by more votes than he did in 2016, with Joe Biden outperforming Barack Obama thanks to widespread Democrat corruption in paradise.

Donald Trump, with an enormous gain of more than 50% from 2016, is in position to be the first Republican to carry Hawaii's largest county since 1984, but is caught from behind by a performance that makes Obama's 2008 run look like the work of a political novice.

Donald Trump blows away his own 2016 performance in a strong Trump-trending county, only to lose margin as Biden has a performance rivaling Barack Obama's. Biden likely has 11,000 excess votes in the county.

With his largest vote gain in America from 2016 coming in the Golden State, Donald Trump appears on pace to have the closest finish in California since 2004. Unfortunately, California's main national export, ballot harvesting, plays a key role in putting Biden over 11 million votes in the state and guaranteeing the national popular vote.

After a shocking upset loss of the county for the first time since 1936, the GOP nominee rebounds with an enormous performance that consolidates the GOP moderates and rips away his opponent's working class supporters. Unfortunately, a minimum of 164,000 excess votes in the county subverts a critical victory in must-hold territory.

Donald Trump massively outperforms all expectations, but loses ground in Fightertown as decades of Californian election corruption produces at least 159,000 excess Biden votes.

Donald Trump manages to trend L.A. County 5 points to the right despite a monumental helping of fraudulent votes in favor of Joe Biden, who manages to eclipse 3 million votes for the first time in the history of America's largest county.

New Mexico's 2020 race appears to be heading to a 2000 or 2004 finish, but instead moves heavily to the left despite a constant Republican registration trend and Latino working class coalition shift.

Donald Trump appears headed over the 40% mark in Bernalillo County for the first time in nearly two decades, but New Mexico's loose policies regarding mail balloting and use of corruption election systems makes Barack Obama's 2008 surge look like a peaceful balloon ride, as Joe Biden takes the largest Democrat margin since 1936.

Joe Biden resurrects the good old days for Democrats, coming in at 2004 totals despite a loss of more than 350,000 party registrations in that timespan to artificially cut margins in one of America's strongest GOP states.

With a gain nearly five times larger than Hillary Clinton's, Joe Biden narrowly misses out on becoming the first Democrat to carry Oklahoma County since 1964.

Summary: Running out of his new home state, Donald Trump expands the Republican margin in Florida thanks to his dramatic improvements in the three Democrat South Florida strongholds. Mail in ballot abuse and problems with voter registration in the rest of the state tighten what should have been a blowout not seen in more than three decades.

President Trump's home county has at least 43,000 excess votes for Joe Biden present, minimizing the record setting Republican growth in the county. Palm Beach county appears to trail only Hillsborough County for most excess Democrat votes statewide.

Duval County has been Republican in every presidential election since 1972, with the lone exception being 1976 when it went for Jimmy Carter. Donald Trump pours on the most new Republican votes in the modern era, but someone drops the county when Joe Biden lands a Democrat gain surpassing even Barack Obama's 2008 surge.

Donald Trump, with an enormous gain of more than 60,000 net new votes, is clearly in line to carry Hillsborough County for the first GOP win there since 2004 - that is, until an extra 51,000 Biden ballots keep the optics consistent with recent years.

Trump's single-cycle gains in Broward County are legendary, but 34,000 excess votes for Joe Biden in Florida's most corrupt county prevents even further tightening of Democrat margins in South Florida.

Captain K demonstrates why Miami-Dade county is the cleanest mega-county in the 2020 U.S. election, with a massive Trumpian undercurrent present among Cuban and Venezuelan ethnicity voters.

Formerly competitive Volusia County has become a MAGA stronghold, with two consecutive cycles of decline and a record GOP gain leading into 2020. Now registrations have flipped to favor Trump's Republicans. How did Joe Biden manage to come in 25,000 votes over any reasonable forecast and minimize losses here?

Republicans finally take over the lead in voter registration, and President Trump blows away his most optimistic forecast, only for the Democrat nominee to carry the county for the first time since 1976.

An overwhelming America First trend in North Carolina has made 93 counties more favorable to President Trump, signifying a landslide; however, corruption of the mail-in voting system throughout the Research Triangle and Metro Charlotte makes North Carolina much closer than any reasonable forecast would have had it in 2020.