Or maybe she ran into a lot of misogyny during the campaign.

If 30% of thr electorate during thr campaign mocked her candidacy or gave her a hard time over her gender, or flat out said they would never vote for a woman or women aren't capable of leadership or whatever.....

And then she lost by around 30%, it's not a stretch to conclude that that penis was what won the election, because it was never about anything else.