Unless we’re going to dump the electoral system and go to a popular vote, red/blue defines our POTUS contest.
And the Dems start the race with 107 in the bag not having to spend a dollar (Cal, Ill, NY).
At the last state GOP convention in Michigan, delegates voted by a wide margin to support doing away with our winner take all electoral system. It was really just a symbolic vote to show that there is support for it but nothing has happened in the state legislature.
The new system would give presidential candidates the electoral votes of only the districts they win. It would kill cheating in places like Detroit because there would be no point in it. Detroit could produce 500 million votes if they wanted to but they would still only produce a set number of electoral votes for the democrat candidate.