Posted on 03/13/2019 3:58:50 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign is preparing an early focus on Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, states that were instrumental to his improbable 2016 victory but where his support has softened, two campaign advisers said.
The decision to accelerate campaign organising and eventually get the Republican president to make trips to the three states is a recognition that Trump’s path to re-election in 2020 will need to repeat some of the successes he had in 2016.
Advisers also see a need to bolster Trump’s support in Florida, a battleground state he considers his second home but where opinion polls show him struggling.
They also see an opportunity for gains in Minnesota and Colorado, two states Trump narrowly lost. The Trump team views those states as competitive places where the president can go on offence, according to the advisers, who asked not to be named so they could speak freely about the campaign strategy.
With 20 months to go until the November 2020 presidential election, Trump and his campaign team are still getting organised for what is expected to be a tough battle for a second four-year term.
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Mi and Pa are probably gone. In Mi the Rats picked up the Govenor, AG and most importantly the SOS. The SOS will enable the vote theft. The Rats stole the WI Govenor race so l am not optimistic there either.
Michigan won’t be easy for Trump. Still losing too many auto industry jobs, especially from GM.
Attempting to gain Colorado and keep Gardner in the Senate? And try to pick up MN Electoral votes and win the Senate seat over Smith.
I hope the Trump campaign is also preparing an early focus on preventing ballot stuffing, illegal alien voting and other fraud in the large cities in those states. If they aren’t nothing else they do will matter.
In 2016 the Democrats underestimated how many crates of votes in car trunks would have to be “found” at the last minute in cities such as Philadelphia to overwhelm the Trump votes in the rest of those states. I wouldn’t count on them making that same mistake twice.
I'm a poll watcher in PA, and I volunteered phoning and door knocking for Trumps first election and will do it again, but I hope the pubbies are more coordinated between Pubbyville in Harrisburg, Westmoreland County, and Trump's campaign than the last time.
It was the true definition of a clusterfxxx. With the pubbie incompetence I witnessed, as well as the cheating by the demonRATS, I was surprised that we pulled PA into the win column.
If I'm still living, I'll give Trump my last election effort and hope that we will win.
Democraps planned lotsa 2020 voter fraud but they never factored in the vote-losing antics of Omar, Tlaib and AOC.
Don’t count Pennsytucky out. I live in bucks county and it could go either way. We kept our Republican congressman in the last election. I consider Bucks County a bell weather for Pennsylvania. The people we have to worry about are snakes like Paul Ryan. He is going to lead the independent move against Trump paid for by the Bushes.
We have to crush this independent moved in Pennsytucky. The Koch brothers for very active in Pennsylvania in the last election. We need to call them out early and often. Yesterday Paul Ryan took the first shot. I say drive a stake threw Eddie Munsters heart now.
I’m in Indiana County. Sure would be nice to go to a rally locally!
I will be helping in central Pennsylvania.
JoMa
Hear, hear!
I live in CO, where you wouldn’t know Cory Gardner is still alive, he’s so quiet. Trump has zero chance of flipping this state. I doubt any R does — it’s gone.
For certain, things need to be secured as to WHO is doing the voting. The same thing will happen in 2020, with all of these people coming in as refugees and getting a court date being released...they for sure are not going to vote for Donald Trump.
I hate to say this but Trump will have to win 55% of the vote to have a chance at 5% voter fraud is already baked in I think Nancy Pelosi knows this if the Democrats impeach Trump he will go down as folk hero for the end of time but they want to beat him and humiliate him how did this same country that elected Reagan with 49 states come to this sad day in time..
I’m in southcentral PA-—this is sold Trump country.
Toomey?—every other time he opens his mouth to support something, I’m wondering what the h3ll he’s doing?
Prayer. The key ingredient last time was that Trump was colluding with the Higher Power (and I don’t mean Putin).
Notice they quietly avoid discussing NH or ME. Trump lost NH by 1500 votes and since then Rs have added about 7,000 net to the voter rolls.
ME was pretty close too. I think Brad Parschale is “Wisconsinizing” NH and ME as the sleepers.
IMO, the actual physical presence of Trump at rallies is the biggest card in his deck.
He can draw crowds that exceed the arenas he rents, and he gives tickets away for free.
Other candidates cannot draw those crowds, and they charge for tickets in many venues.
Trump can draw a ticket request number of 80,000 for an arena or venue that only holds 8,000.
NO ONE else can do that-—even when they are PAYING people to be there & are BUSSING them there.
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