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Some pundits say it was this rural voter base that propelled Donald Trump to victory

Moscow, Idaho (CNN) JoAnn Hoyt told you so.

She and legions of other Donald Trump supporters knew better than the so-called experts, analysts, pollsters and pundits. She knew Trump would win. How did she see what so many others plainly missed?

She watched.

"If you look at the size of the crowds that he has been drawing compared to the size of the crowds on the other side, I hope that that's an indication," Hoyt said the morning of Election Day. "I think that the people are tired of what we've had the last eight years and just really don't want another four or eight years of that."

But the establishment was watching too. Maybe there was a hidden Trump vote.

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