I was born and grew up in NY and lived in MA for 22 years.
Trump is a lock in both of these states.
I agree about CA, although the autopsy on the GOP collapse there is yet to be written.I do not believe it’s about minorities, I believe the white liberals on the coast have developed a form of collective insanity. They believe things about the world that nobody else does.
Like high speed trains are a better investment then desalination plants to quench the lands thirst?
Or letting naked pervert faggots masturbate in the open shutting down many city blocks to allow it to happen. In the view of children, and whoever happen to be unlucky enough to be in the area.
I see Trump as being stronger than any Republican candidate since Reagan in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, all heavily blue collar industrial states that have lost a lot of their industry since the 1980s. Illinois and New Jersey are not impossible, either. Trump, unlike Cruz, Rubio, and the rest, is an economic nationalist, more like Buchanan and Perot. His positions will not hurt him in the Republican base states of the South, the Plains, and Rockies.
If he wins the key Rust Belt states, adding New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, etc., would be an added gift. My key concern, whoever the GOP nominee is, is voter fraud. If Trump has a comfortable vote margin in western Michigan and the rural areas, ballot box stuffing in Detroit, Flint, Ann Arbor, and Lansing would reverse this victory. Voter fraud cost Nixon the election in 1960, and probably Ford in 1976. Trump has the resources, both in cash and otherwise, to fight this.