Trump Campaign Looks at Electoral Map and Doesn't Like What It Sees

[highplainsdem]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/us/politics/trump-campaign-virus-protests-polls.html

Signs of anxiety inside the Trump team are evident across the electoral map. Over the past few weeks, the president’s operation has spent about $1.7 million on advertising in just three states he carried in 2016 — Ohio, Iowa and Arizona — that it had hoped would not be competitive at all this year. Much of that sum went to a concentrated two-week barrage in Ohio, according to the media-tracking firm Advertising Analytics.

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Perhaps just as telling were two trips last month to Georgia by Vice President Mike Pence. The state has become a source of nagging concern to Republicans, both because of the stakes in the presidential race and because there are two Senate seats up for election this year, including one held by a highly unpopular appointee, Senator Kelly Loeffler, who has been snared in a personal financial scandal.

The fact that any of those states is competitive at this point looms as a significant hurdle to Mr. Trump’s re-election. Should he lose a state like Georgia, with its 16 Electoral College votes, or Arizona, with 11, it could blow a hole in Mr. Trump’s map even if he were to hold other battleground states like Florida, North Carolina and Wisconsin.

A set of state-level polls released on Wednesday by Fox News found Mr. Biden leading Mr. Trump in Arizona by four percentage points, and slightly ahead of Mr. Trump in Ohio as well. The former vice president held a nine-point lead in Wisconsin, where Mr. Trump eked out a win over Hillary Clinton in 2016.

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OP about those Fox News polls:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213538179

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. And that is why putin is advising him to end our freedoms, for good.

[Cha]

2. We Need That DICtator GONE.

[LaMouffette]

3. Wouldn't it be wonderful . . .

if Trump didn't win ANY states in November?