Posted on 10/24/2016 11:28:04 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
RICHMOND — Republican Donald Trump, never short on campaign shockers, pulled one off Saturday simply by setting foot in Virginia.
Trump’s rally in Virginia Beach, part of a renewed push here that included a $2 million television ad buy, flabbergasted political analysts and GOP strategists who’ve considered the swing state off the table for months.
Trailing Democrat Hillary Clinton by double digits in the latest Virginia polls, Trump will dispatch key surrogates — his children — for series of visits to Northern Virginia this week. His campaign said Trump and runningmate Mike Pence will return to the state “a lot” before Election Day....
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Va’s tough.
But Hillary is NOT getting the ‘Black’ turnout she counts on, so maybe...
Trump is being everywhere. He’s also preposition his helicopters for multiple rallies.
The GOP doesn’t have a say in this. They’ve disowned Trump. They’ve done nothing to help him and have done everything to push votes to Hellary. It’s Palin all over again.
Is Tim Kaine homosexual?
Never insult Virginia like that again. Kaine is in no way a Virginian (he’s from Minnesota), and was only voted into office by crooked relocated New Yorkers in NOVA.
Out here in rural Northumberland County, Trump yard signs outnumber H-K signs by about ten to one. Many closet Trump supporters have hesitated to publicly show their support for fear of unpleasantness. But they’ll be at the polls. Outcome not in doubt here.
TC
Good, he shouldn’t give up VA.
I agree, but I think the central issue withe respect to relying on polling is this: if something "unusual" happens on November 8, then it's going to accrue to Trump's advantage. I mean, that's what we're talking about. I think a Hillary landslide is highly unlikely.
So it will either be close, or it'll be a Trump landslide.
If Trump believes in his polling team, he should rely on their data as potentially the best that is available. If Trump thinks he has a good chance in Virginia, then he should go for it, based on priority and time constraints.
I'm having a hard time believing that these early voting lines here in Florida (I'm in Broward, I've read other reports from the Orlando area) are people jumping to get to the polls because of Hillary.
I find it hard to believe that thoughtful voters, after seeing these Trump rallies, and the enthusiasm— and after seeing Hillary's generally soulless, ill-attended rallies— are going to disregard the evidence of their own eyes.
One way or another, this particular metric (crowds, enthusiasm) will forever inform my opinion regarding political reality. It either means something, or it doesn't. If it means anything at all, then Trump must have an advantage.
The Revolution is ON!
Vote Trump!
Or they want Hillary to think they know something.
If Trump is looking to Virginia then he must view Colorado and Nevada as lost causes. I’m not sure I would agree.
FINALLY.
I recommended to Team Trump for three days PA, VA, CO, MI
That’s it. We only need one of those.
It can’t be too hard to “confound” Rove and his followers.
He probably wakes up in the morning, looks up in the sky and says “What is that bright light?”
Both sides do it and the Democrats don't consider Virginia in play.
Yes, I’ve given all the money I can afford to give. I gave more than usual because he didn’t have as many big money donors as Hillary and the GOPe had.
There is a big problem predicting VA because the absentees unlike other states are not marked D/R. So it’s hard to get a rolling count of where a campaign is.
If you notice, not only did Cantor get bumped despite good polls (you can say, “one district”) but Warner was up 11 I think about a week out before winning by just 1, and the Gillespie race was far closer than polls said.
SOVA needs to turn out and we can win this.
I thought NV was close. Hillary sending President Obama out there even.
I thought all along Indiana was considered blue. Now I’m reading it’s winnable. That’s GOT to help the electoral map.
Trump absolutely crushed it in the VA primary. Turn every one of them out, and each brings just one, election over.
Gotta pay those high salaried MSM folks ya know!
That’s it, bro. We gave all we could.
I would have hoped that 16 days out, he would have been set financially, but perhaps he is getting close.
Ground game and commercials are very expensive.
I’d focus on ground game more than commercials.
What do you think?
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