Michigan Threatens to Slip From Trump as He Goes Quiet on Airwaves

[RandySF]

President Trump’s campaign has quietly receded from the television airwaves in Michigan in recent weeks, shifting money elsewhere as one of the key Midwestern states that powered his surprise victory in 2016 threatens to move more firmly back into the Democratic column in 2020.

Michigan began the year with expectations that it would be one of the most intense battlegrounds in the country, but its share of Trump television advertising dollars dwindled this summer as Joseph R. Biden Jr. built a steady advantage in the polls.

Since the end of June, Mr. Trump has spent more money on ads in 10 other states — with Michigan falling behind even much smaller states like Iowa and Nevada — and in recent days, Mr. Trump’s campaign stopped buying ads in Michigan entirely.

The Biden campaign has more than tripled what Mr. Trump spent on television in Michigan in the last month, by far the most lopsided advantage of any swing state where both are advertising. And in Detroit, the state’s largest media market, the Trump campaign last ran a television ad, outside of national ad buys that include the state, on July 3, according to data from Advertising Analytics.



https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/29/us/politics/michigan-trump-biden-2020.html

[beachbumbob]

1. Michigan is out of reach for trump and we will see same in other supposed

battle ground states, especially if DNC and Biden go up in all 50 states. The defeat will be humiliating.

[Happy Hoosier]

2. Threatens? That's putting it mildly. NT

[RestoreAmerica2020]

3. We are on track to win back Blue Wall 2020 and BIDEN wins! Found this article

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://cookpolitical.com/analysis/national/national-politics/how-does-blue-wall-look-2020&ved=2ahUKEwj3-OaK7fLqAhW1JzQIHQ3EDD0QFjAOegQIARAB&usg=AOvVaw21bWS0RUMGd4z29ROaeosc&cshid=1596039148852


How Does the "Blue Wall" Look for 2020?
Amy Walter February 14, 2019 [cookpolitical.com

There’s something of a consensus forming that the 'easiest' or least risky electoral path for the Democratic nomin]ee in 2020 is to reconstruct the so-called "Blue Wall" in the industrial midwest. If the Democratic nominee wins every state Hillary Clinton carried in 2016, plus Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan, that Democrat would win 278 electoral votes — eight more than the 270 needed to win. Just as important, it means that Democrats wouldn’t need to sweat Ohio or Florida. They can lose those big, electoral-vote-rich states, and still have enough to win the White House