Would Trump have won the election if he didn't use the lie he could lower fuel, and food costs?

Probably… I dont think the democrats offered a viable alternative argument other than “hey we’re not Trump”

Yes if Starlink or his daughter’s company’s voting tech or whatever rigged the counts in certain places.

And even if that didn’t happen, I don’t think reasoning had much to do with what happened.

What Fox News’ owners has had them say was, I think, one of the largest effects. Just watch a few minutes of it, and it’s pretty clear. They’ve been doing that for decades now.

Trump only won the election by cheating, not by anything he said. Research the number of votes disallowed.

He would still have won it. Seems it is real that a lot of people went through and are still going through hard times. They chose change. Didn’t matter who. They just wanted change.

Almost all media sources were toeing the Repub line, esp. the ones Conservative voters tuned in to. That skewed perceptions enough. Remember how all media was complaining about the candidates being too old? After Biden dropped out, no more talk of old candidates despite Trump being the oldest candidate in American history. How about Trump’s crazy antics during the campaign. Made it on the news for a day, then dropped. Project 2025 vs Trump’s Agenda 47 – not a peep. “Eating cats and dogs” – one day then dropped. Tariffs – dropped (but a lot of Google searches after the election).

It was a combination of things – people wanted change, people wanted something done about the border, prices were up, Harris was not really chosen properly because Biden didn’t step down until the last minute. It was like a giant cluster fuck.

I’ll give it more than two weeks before I call it a lie.
And it was far more than inflation that got him the win.