And he had to wrestle with Her advice to fight for Michigan, which he did not do, in fact, they pulled out. She denoted in her book we will go back their.
Had he listened to her and fought for MI, OH, PA, and WI the way Candidate Trump did, we would have possibly said a found farewell to President McCain in 2016 as he retired.
And it is just a hunch as why he was so bitter towards PDJT, besides PDJT's comments about heroism ( which I have heard echo'd on Fox by those willing to discuss what Vet's talk about on the down-low ) and that is PDJT won States and did things he didn't think too get-er-done, and the rest is history.....
Since he only made it to August 2018 WITHOUT the tremendous stress of the of being President, I think it’s likely he would have died in office. If not during the first term then during the 2nd (if he got one, which would have been questionable).