Trump lost 4 of the top 5 boat-owning states

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published 6 November 2020

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.

Florida is home to the most registered boats per capita, followed by Minnesota, Michigan, California, and Wisconsin, according to the National Marine Manufacturers Association. Those states are responsible for a third of all boats in the U.S. — about 5 million, the NMMA says. But all the boat parades in the Great Lakes couldn't convince Michigan and Wisconsin to go for Trump again this year, as Trump managed to only narrowly shore up a win in Florida this election around.

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Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.