Posted on 05/17/2020 2:45:28 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Former Vice President and the presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is looking to expand the number of swing states in play in this Novembers election, targeting Republican-leaning states in his bid to unseat President Donald Trump.
Alongside traditional battleground states like Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, and New Hampshire the former three of which Trump won in 2016 the Biden presidential campaign believes it can bring traditionally reliable GOP states into play, like Texas, Georgia, and Arizona, which hold a combined 65 electoral votes, or nearly a quarter of the 270 needed to win the election.
Jen OMalley Dillon, a Biden campaign manager, told reporters Friday that the campaign would be focused both on winning back Democratic-leaning states which Trump flipped in 2016 like Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania as well as traditional battleground states like Florida, North Carolina, and Ohio.
But OMalley Dillon added that the campaign is also eyeing Republican strongholds like Texas, Georgia, and Arizona to broaden the electoral map in play.
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Trump got 304 electoral votes. Add in the two faithless Texas electors and that brings it up to 306. Pennsylvania has 20 electoral votes, Michigan has 16 and Wisconsin has 10. Add those together and you get 46. Subtract that from 306 and you get 260.
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