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Fri Feb 7, 2020, 03:29 PM Feb 2020

How Trump Rewired the Electoral Map

How Trump Rewired the Electoral Map

February 7, 2020 at 9:45 am EST By Taegan Goddard 372 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2020/02/07/how-trump-rewired-the-electoral-map/

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Politico: “Familiar presidential battlegrounds—not just Ohio and Virginia, but also Colorado, Iowa and more—are fading from the radar. States that haven’t experienced a top-of-the-ticket dogfight in decades—like Arizona, Georgia, Minnesota and maybe even Texas—are suddenly poised to play a pivotal role.”

“You can argue about whether Minnesota—a cradle of liberalism that produced Hubert Humphrey, Walter Mondale and Paul Wellstone—is a pipe dream for Trump in 2020. Or whether Texas—where Republicans hold all nine statewide elected offices, both Senate seats and both chambers of the Legislature—will truly be in play in November. But one thing seems increasingly inarguable: This presidential race will be fought on electoral terrain that would have been unthinkable four years ago, before Trump blew everything up.”

See the latest consensus electoral map, based on the most recent forecasts.

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