Posted on 10/16/2019 1:29:05 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Trump’s reelection campaign says it is hiring staff and opening field offices in Minnesota and New Mexico, two traditionally blue states the president’s strategists have identified as having potential to flip in 2020.
Still, the Trump campaign believes that both states are in play this time around.
On a conference call with reporters, a senior official said the campaign is working on a “huge buildout” of paid staffers and a volunteer network in Minnesota that will dwarf their 2016 efforts there.
In the past election, the campaign had only one staffer on the ground in Minnesota, and that person split time in Colorado as well.
“We already have staff on the ground in Minnesota and now we’re building out an infrastructure of paid staff and volunteers and you can see with that turnout from the rally last week that we’ll obviously be competitive in Minnesota,” the official said. “So that’s one state we’ll have a huge buildout and continue to build on our staff and volunteers between now and Election Day next year.”
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Meghan markle is trying to copy Melanias shoulder robing look . she is having her PR team plant stories about her look. She cant carry it of like Melania. She should not even attemp it
She looks like Phyllis Diller compared to Mrs. Trump.
For New Mexico, Trump would have to flip around 65,000 votes, which is not a big deal. But he’d have to get a fair portion of the Latino community. It’s not impossible....just requires an effort of work.
For Minn, it’s 44,000 and very much within his range.
If both flipped, it’s serious problems for the Democrats in 2024.
This is where Trump’s campaign outshines them all: the ground game. With an army of workers and volunteers hitting the ground running and a tireless, energetic campaigner like Trump hitting every state with appearances and rallies, this is retail politics at its purest.
Ditto for New Hampshire. Only 4 EVs there, but they all count.
This is the part about Trump that the libs find especially galling because he won’t accept any state as a given for the blue vote column. If he believes he has a shot, Trump will make them earn it. This is the Wisconsin story writ for 2020.
Trump has a fighting chance in Minnesota.
He has no chance in New Mexico.
In 2016, the Libertarians got 9.34% in New Mexico.
I think Trump and his people believe they can grab a big slice of the Libertarian vote.
Completely misguided.
In 2016, the Libertarians publicly campaigned for Open Borders and Amnesty. Their Vice President nominee publicly stated he would vote for Hillary Clinton if he was not on the Libertarian ticket.
Trump will be lucky to split the New Mexico Libertarian vote 50-50.
What about New Hampshire and Nevada, two states that have often been mentioned in the same categories as these two statez?
Re: This is the Wisconsin story writ for 2020.
Do you think Trump will win Wisconsin in 2020?
I do not.
Most Conservatives do not realize that Mitt Romney got more votes in Wisconsin in 2012 than Trump got in 2016 - and Romney lost the state by 7%.
The Democrats completely failed to turn out their core voters in Wisconsin in 2016.
That will not happen in 2020.
Having spent a lot of last year in New Mexico and having grown up in Minnesota, I agree.
I was actually in Minnesota on election day 2016 and that week I noticed few if any HILLARY signs. I did see a LACK of Democrat signs in general.
As for New Mexico, the Santa Fe area has a bunch of historically democrat voters being turned off by the openly hostile and vulgar parts of the left. It looks like more people are tired of PC and crazy in both states. Minnesotans are quite the plain folks, and don’t like the crazy stuff either. Minneapolis is a running joke for liberal stupid, and trying to be worse than Chicago on policy. Bike lanes and bad city government will do that.
Probably be better targeting NH; I don’t see much else available for pickup. NM people are now liberal to the core; wasn’t always that way though.
So true; WI is unreliable.
You keep saying that.
Some Wisconsin black voters intentionally stayed home. It was their way of voting for Trump.
And, it will happen again in 2020.
Just like it happened in Michigan and just like it happened in Pennsylvania.
Re: Some Wisconsin black voters intentionally stayed home. It was their way of voting for Trump.
That is one of the most astounding claims I have ever seen at Free Republic.
Quick Reminder...
Nationally, Trump got 8% of the Black vote in 2016.
https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/how-groups-voted-2016
President Trump’s campaign appears to have the money so they should open up campaign headquarters in every state.
Do not concede any of them.
May not win but it will force the Democrat to respond (by spending money they don’t have).
It goes deeper than that. Not only would Trump have to flip votes he'd have to face a Democrat who could suppress the Democrat turnout as much as Hillary did. In Minnesota, Clinton got about 150,000 votes fewer than Obama did in 2012. In New Mexico Clinton got about 20,000 votes fewer than Obama did in 2012. A high voter turnout would tend to hurt Trump in both states.
Minnesota makes sense for reaching 270 electoral votes. New Mexico is a sign he’s using his own campaign to help the Republican majority grow. (So is his interest in Oregon.) It’s not that he CAN’T win in New Mexico; it’s just that there’s no way he wins in New Mexico WITHOUT also getting 270 votes elsewhere.
For the Republicans, North Carolina, Maine, Arizona and Colorado look dangerous. For the Democrats, Alabama should be a certain loss, with Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, and New Hampshire possibly in play.
Yeah...
because some of those black voters stayed home.
They couldn’t mark the oval for Trump, but they voted for him by staying home.
If you can’t figure that out, you’re not very bright.
There’s a damn good reason black vote was down in Wisconsin, down in Michigan, and down in Pennsylvania....
and that reason was Donald J Trump.
Same thing is going to happen in 2020.
Sounds like Pittsburgh.
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