It’s your right to believe that, and we could quibble about definitions till the cows come home. But as far as the historical record will be concerned, that’s what happened.

A potato with a blue stripe and a (D) next to its name could have beaten Trump in 2020, not due to any fault of Trump’s, but because he wasn’t running against a candidate - he was running against a virus. Honestly, he was running against the concept of the fear of dying. Even someone like him who discovered our current political framework’s cheat codes/exploits couldn’t beat that, especially as an incumbent. The fact that Corn Pop’s friend beat him, but also that he still gained millions of votes over his total in 2016 shows this.