Posted on 04/27/2019 3:25:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Senior Trump 2020 advisers are headed to Harrisburg on Wednesday to meet with Pennsylvania GOP officials amid mounting concerns about the president’s prospects in the critical battleground state.
Trump's campaign is moving to shore up the state after 2018 midterm elections that saw Republicans get blown out in races up and down the ballot. Compounding the situation is a state party organization riven by turmoil and infighting.
The private meeting, confirmed by a half-dozen party officials, underscores the high stakes for the president in the state. Trump won Pennsylvania by less than 1 percentage point in 2016, and reelection aides view the state’s 20 electoral votes as crucial to his 2020 hopes. Pennsylvania also has symbolic significance: In 2016, Trump geared his campaign toward the state’s large proportion of blue-collar voters, many of whom had traditionally voted Democratic.
The Trump contingent is expected to include political director Chris Carr, who is orchestrating the campaign’s national field deployment, as well as Bill Stepien and Justin Clark, who are overseeing outreach to delegates and state party organizations. Republican National Committee officials are also expected to attend.
The meeting is the first of what Trump aides say will be a series of visits to battleground states. The fact that Pennsylvania is the first stop underscores the state’s importance, they say — and the level of concern about it.
“The party is not in great shape,” said Rob Gleason, a former Pennsylvania GOP chairman. “It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that.”
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What alarms? Give me a break.
Lucky for DJT, Senator Toomey is a YUGE supporter! (gag)
Um... he’s supposed to campaign in a battleground state. Duh!
Fake news
I said the same thing...”alarms? Ha.”
Well after 18 I’d say PA and Mich are gone. The Rats stole the Governor in Wi so I’m not sure there. And Fla just added almost 2 million felon votes so yeah its going to be tough.
Uh...3.2% growth rate? He’s gotta worry?
Politico has to stop believing their own push polls.
How about getting out there and investigating and reporting the “voter fraud?”
Watch the Trump rally tonight 8 EST and see the support for Our Donald. People have been camping out since yesterday to see our awesome President sent to us by God to save this nation. I don’t know anyone giving up on a landslide 2020.
Faker than Obama’s birth cert.
Consider the source
Better to fix problems early than campaign like Hillary, just do nothing and expect to be anointed in a landslide.
“Well after 18 I’d say PA and Mich are gone.”
nonsense. most Presidents lose significant numbers of Congressional seats during the midterms.
still, FR seems to be running short of nattering nabobs of negativism lately, so you look good to help fulfill that quota ...
Blown out in midterms because they ran crap candidates and the GOP didn’t even take the damned field here in 18...
Trump will win PA handily. The GOP lose because they refuse to learn the lessons of 16...
Messaging is completely wrong from the GOP ecosphere to win here...
You can’t win in the rust belt by running and messaging your campaign like you are in South Carolina.
Trump knows it, the GOP refuses to learn it
Sigh, stick to what you know, and what you know sure is not PA...
Trump will win here handily and by a bigger margin than 16.
Whoa there l didn’t say what you think l said. With the best economy in decades l like our chances. I thank every day for Trump. I’m just saying every election is a war and l see 2 states we won which look bad right now and DeSantos won Fla by 1/2 a percent before adding 2 million felons. So we need to work hard to beat the Rats. That’s all l am saying.
Yes - people forget after a few years of prosperity what it is like to NOT have a job, and then tend to vote emotionally - that’s part of what happened here in Wisconsin; they just wanted the controversy to go away and believed Evers lies.
Now we have a radical leftist who has done nothing, accomplished nothing, and is in way over his head - but that didn’t stop Evers from announcing early on that he would pay no attention to the State Constitution or Wisconsin law.
The Dem 2020 candidate will mirror this approach and plunge the US into socialism, if the Republicans can’t hold the Senate and can’t regain the House.
You would think, but remember even with the strong economy, the takers still.outnumber the makers. That and takers will always vote for "free stuff".
Exactly......PA will hold for Trump!
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