Trump lost 4 of the top 5 boat-owning states
President Trump was really counting on America's boat owners, and it seems they let him sink.
Trump's campaign was driven — err, sailed — by his supporters' boat parades around the country, with the president even zinging Democratic nominee Joe Biden for not having enough boat folks in his camp. But Trump only managed to anchor one of the top boat-owning states in the country, even after winning three of them in 2016.
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