Trump campaign counters Democrats' convention in swing state barnstorm, major digital buy

President Trump and his reelection campaign aren’t waiting for their designated moment in the 2020 electoral spotlight. The Trump team this week is barnstorming critical swing states, knocking on doors and launching a digital ad blitz amid the Democratic National Convention that it says will expose rival Joe Biden's “abject failure” as an elected official and his campaign’s hard-left turn.

In an act of political showmanship, Trump will start with a visit to Wisconsin on Monday – the same day that the Democrats’ nominating convention begins in Milwaukee – by holding a rally in nearby Oshkosh.

Biden, however, is set to make his acceptance speech in home state Delaware amid coronavirus concerns, a contrast the Trump campaign is also highlighting.

“Joe Biden has been hiding in his basement in Wilmington, Delaware for four months,” Tim Murtaugh, the Trump campaign’s communications director, told Fox News on Sunday. “He does not answer questions from the media and he sure isn't talking to regular Americans.”

Trump begins his four-state tour with stops Monday in Minnesota and Wisconsin, followed by visits Tuesday in Arizona and Thursday in Pennsylvania.

“The intention right now is for the president to go around to these key states … and really tell the folks there and across the country what an abject failure Joe Biden has been for the 47 years that he's been an elected official in Washington, D.C.,”Murtaugh also told Fox.

The president plans to attend the funeral this week of his younger brother, Robert, who died Saturday. But no date has been announced, and no plans to change Trump’s schedule have been announced.

Trump will likely need to win Arizona, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, as he did in 2016, to take a second term, with equally challenging circumstances.

Trump four years ago became the first Republican presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan in 1984 to win Wisconsin. Trump took the state by just 22,748 votes, or by less than 1 percent.

He won Pennsylvania by an equally narrow margin. But Trump perhaps faces an even greater challenge in that state, considering Biden was born in Scranton and has long had the support of the union workers in western Pennsylvania, which helped Trump upset Democrat Hillary Clinton four years ago.

Most recent polls show Biden leading the president by single digits in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, though a recent Rasmussen Reports survey shows the former vice president ahead of Trump in the latter by 12 points.

Biden and Trump are essentially deadlocked in Arizona, a state that a Republican presidential candidate has won since 1996, amid changing demographics that continue to help Democrats. Clinton narrowly won Minnesota in 2016. Trump recently trailed Biden by as many as 13 points but has narrowed the lead in recent days to 3 points.

Trump, as he did in in 2016, will continue to try to tout himself as a law-and-order president, a platform solidified by voter discontent over the recent social justice protests devolving into riots in cities and states run by elected Democrats.

He also continues to highlight his efforts to create a robust domestic economy and keep it afloat during a global pandemic.

The Trump campaign is also planning a seven- or eight-figure digital ad buy during the course of the DNC convention and a get-out-the vote effort that includes a field staffers bus tour in Iowa.

“I think voters want the interaction with the campaign, and our people knocking on doors hear from voters that they're happy that at least one campaign is reaching out to them,” Murtaugh also said. “The Biden campaign starts with their candidate. and it goes down throughout all the way down to their volunteers. They are just not interacting with the American people, the candidate himself Joe Biden has been hiding in his basement in Wilmington, Delaware, for four months.

considering Biden was born in Scranton and has long had the support of the union workers in western Pennsylvania,

Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! Just STOP IT!!!

There IS NO SLOBBERING LOVE AFFAIR WITH JOE BIDEN here in Pennsylvania. So he was born in Scranton. So what? He left over half a century ago. One of my kids was born in Michigan but left for good when she was 3 days old. She won't be running for Governor. The "western PA union workers" the article references are, for the most part, DEAD! They attended Biden rallies organized by the USW in the 80's. Blue collar workers around here today are terrified that Joe is going to ban fracking. The union workers supporting him now are all teachers and government employees who would support a three-toed sloth if it had a D next to its name.

BIDEN's doing a 2016 Hillary------"What? Me Worry?"

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CBS News in Palm Beach posts 2020 primary election results before election day [ Laura Loomer ]
The Floridian ^ | August 16, 2020 | Javier Manjarres / FR Posted by george76

Early voting has just ended in Florida and election day is on Tuesday, August 18th, but that hasn’t stopped CBS12 in Palm Beach County, Florida from posting their election results in the 2020 primary election. President Donald Trump and Republicans have warned of voter fraud and voter suppression in the 2020 presidential election, so could CBS12 pre-election day, election results be a sampling of what is to come in the coming months? How can CBS12 be reporting the election results before election day? Or better yet, why is CBS12 reporting 100% precincts reporting 48 hours before the polls even open. ...

Regardless of how they came up with these random and “fake” vote counts, the existence of the results and their listing on the CBS12’s news website is troubling, especially when they state that results are indicative of “100% OF PRECINCTS REPORTING.” How can any of the precincts be reporting considering that they haven’t even opened up yet, and technically speaking, it’s against election laws in Florida for any of the ballots be open before election day? ...

CBS12’s posting of the election results is tantamount to voter suppression in President Donald Trump’s very own backyard. Conservative journalist and congressional candidate Laura Loomer was first to notice the “fake” election results and alerted The Floridian about what she calls “blatant voter suppression and vote tampering by a major news outlet in Palm Beach County.” (Excerpt) Read more at floridianpress.com ...

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NANCY PELOSI IS COLLUDING WITH A FEDERAL AGENCY AND A UNION TO INTERFERE IN THE ELECTION

As soon as the USPS postal union endorsed Biden, Pelosi didnt waste a minute. She recalled the House to convene for a vote on a USPS bill.

These postal types are salivating....Nancy's buying their votes w/ some $25 billion tax dollars.

She is also the cowboy spurring the mail-in voting debacle.

She's harrasing Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to testify about mailboxes being removed across the nation.
Mailbox removal is a common occurrence.

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Democrats fear that Donald Trump is trying to slow down the USPS.

They claim that sabotaging the USPS will reduce voter turnout.

Trump claims mail-in voting is a threat to the integrity of the election.

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