There’s no reason to go for states that are longshots that he doesn’t need. It sounds like a bad plan to me. If the easier states were shored up, I would just go back to them to add onto the margin of victory. If he’s losing the easier states and going for a hail mary pass to make up for them, then it’s a bad position to be in.
He's running out of places to visit.
I think he has the research to know where to go.
Trump has Tony Fabrizio, and he is one of the better pollsters in the business, so I suspect there must be something to this.
But....it also means Hilliary has to divert resources to MN from other swing states.
This is what I think is going but am afraid to say it on here. The internal polling is showing some slipping in a few states that are needed.
I’m a recovering elected official who has lived in MN for 30+ years now and I can assure you that MN may actually be in play. The outstate areas are overwhelmingly trump and the statewide mock high school election he won (and kids tend to vote in those things similar to the leanings of their parents.) There are a number of people I know who are traditional “FDR” democrats who reliably vote all democrat are voting 3rd party because they can’t stand / trust Hillary. If Trump can win 44% of the vote here he beats Hillary by a hair because Johnson will probably garner his highest support in the nation right here in MN and that eats into Hillary’s base. The year Ventura won as governor the Dem (Herbert Humphrey’s own grandson) came in 3rd place due to a split vote. I’m not saying it’ll happen but the vibe I have is that Trump isn’t desperate or wasting his time as others here have said.
There’s no reason to go for states that are longshots that he doesn’t need.
_________________________________________
We do not know that it is a long shot. There is another dyn amic. He has been to “swing” states many times already, but he has not been to Minnesota. This signals enormous confidence on his part, which is likely to raise his vote totals everywhere across the nation.
It stands out, and that makes it news.
Trump has shown that he is a master at playing the media.