A week after from Hillary Clinton’s loss in the election, Democrats continue lashing out at anyone they feel is responsible for the impending Trump presidency. Unable to look within the corrupt machinations of their own party to search out blame, their sights are set outward. Besides Trump voters themselves, Clinton supporters are attacking third-party backers for handing Clinton a loss in a particularly tight election. The problem with this thinking is that it is simply not true.

It is true Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson and Green Party nominee Jill Stein awarded their respective parties with the best showings either notched. Johnson got over 4 million votes and Stein received over 1 million, which comes out to 3 percent of the popular vote going to Johnson and 1 percent going to Stein. Of course, these numbers sound like missed riches to Clinton, who lost many states like Florida and Michigan by slim margins.

Democrats are working overtime to generate excuses for an election that saw even large segments of their key constituencies abandon their candidate.

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“How Gary Johnson and Jill Stein helped elect Donald Trump,” read a CNN headline post-election. “Gary Johnson and Jill Stein Handed the Presidency to Donald Trump,” read another from Vanity Fair. And on and on it goes as the Left, and friends in the media, look for any and every excuse to criticize everything except the broken Democratic Party.

The first misconception about Clinton losing the election due to third-party support is that those votes belonged to Clinton in the first place.

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A CBS exit poll found that a whopping 55 percent of Johnson supporters would have sat out the election if Trump and Clinton had been their only choices, while 61 percent of Stein voters answered the same. According to another exit poll by The New York Times, 63 percent of third party voters made the same claim about simply not voting if Clinton and Trump were the only options.

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These numbers alone disprove the myth that third-party votes belonged to anybody, let alone Clinton. However, breaking it down even further, Clinton would have needed almost 100 percent of Johnson’s votes in order to defeat Trump in many swing states. He was the one candidate to consistently “cover the spread” by typically earning an amount of votes that matched the difference between Trump and Clinton’s popularity. However, breaking down Libertarian support shows Johnson likely harmed Trump more than Clinton.

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Libertarian website Reason found that 12 poll breakdowns of Johnson voters showed far more of a Republican bent than a Democratic one (typical for Libertarians and a ticket consisting of two ex-Republican governors). Around 25 percent of Johnson supporters identified as Republican while only 10 percent identified as a Democrat. In other words: had Johnson’s votes been up for grabs, they would have likely helped Trump more than Clinton.

Libertarians don’t just vote Republican more (primarily identified as of the libertarian ilk are Republicans like former Rep. Ron Paul, Sen. Rand Paul, and Rep. Justin Amash), but a lot of libertarian support was already in Trump’s corner. Outspoken libertarian businessman Peter Thiel showed big financial support to Trump and is even now a member of his transition team. Groups like Libertarians for Trump, spearheaded by prominent libertarians like Walter E. Block, organized for the candidate and took a liking to Trump’s anti-globalism message.

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With Johnson out of the picture, it’s dire for Clinton. Stein had the best showing ever for the Green Party — which has policies closely aligned with that of Democrats. However, if Clinton nabbed every single one of Stein’s votes (something that simply would never happen), she still loses almost every key swing state and thus, the presidency.

Florida, which became the first sign of a Trump surge on election night, was won by Trump with a little over 100,000 votes. Add Stein’s 64,000 votes to Clinton, and the picture remains the same — with Trump still taking the state’s whopping 29 electoral votes. Take Johnson out of the picture and numbers indicate Trump only does better.

Wisconsin, a state Clinton was so sure she’d take that she didn’t visit since April, gave Stein another 30,000 votes. Those votes would have technically given Clinton the state’s 10 electoral votes, but adding in Johnson’s votes likely still evens out the score and solidifies the original results. The same goes for Michigan.

“As Ohio goes, so goes the nation,” repeated many talking heads as the reality of a Trump presidency began sinking in over the course of election night. No Republican has ever won the White House without the state, and Democrats have not accomplished such a feat since 1964. Trump carried Ohio with over 400,000 more votes than Clinton. You can give her both Johnson and Stein’s support and she still loses the essential state.

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The results are similar in other swing states like North Carolina, where Stein was not even on the ballot. Adding Johnson’s vote total there to Clinton’s still leaves Trump with a win.

Democrats are working overtime to generate excuses for an election that saw large segments of their key constituencies abandon their candidate. Clinton didn’t lose because of Johnson or Stein. She lost, in no small part, because only 65 percent of Latino voters decided to vote for Clinton, while 27 percent chose Trump. She lost because only 55 percent of millennials supported her compared to Trump’s 37 percent. She lost because of a lack of a clear message, because of people’s thirst for change, and because of a reliance on celebrity star power in swing states.

Clinton supporters are looking for anyone to blame that is not named Clinton. The numbers simply do not support the fact that third-party nominees ruined Clinton’s chances. Those voters likely did more damage to Trump. Without the full support of Johnson backers, who would have mostly stayed home or voted for Trump, Clinton loses. Giving her all of Stein’s support, which wouldn’t ever happen — she still loses. Liberals may not want to hear it or be ready to accept it, but Clinton didn’t lose because the race was unfair or people let her down. She lost because she was the wrong candidate, with the wrong message, heading the wrong party.