Trump Mostly Plays Defense as Biden Looks to Expand Electoral Map
WARM SPRINGS, Ga.—Democrats are betting they can expand the electoral map in the final week of the 2020 campaign with a late foray into several traditionally GOP-leaning states, leaving President Trump largely playing defense in many battlegrounds he won four years ago.
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Tuesday traveled to Georgia, a state that has voted for the GOP nominee in every presidential election since 1992. Later in the week he will head to Iowa, which Mr. Trump won in 2016 by a sizable margin after former President Barack Obama won it twice. His running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, will travel to Texas and Arizona later this week, states that voted for Republicans for the last 10 and five campaign cycles, respectively.
Mr. Trump, meanwhile, is traveling this week to at least five states he won in 2016 and that are key to a victory this time around. He held three campaign rallies on Monday in Pennsylvania, which he narrowly won in 2016 and where polls now show Mr. Biden ahead by an average of 4.5 points, according to Real Clear Politics. On Tuesday, Mr. Trump was scheduled to hold rallies in Michigan, Wisconsin and Nebraska, where an Omaha-area district that awards one electoral vote could prove key in a very close contest. Mr. Trump won the district by 2.3 percentage points in 2016, and the Omaha media market includes a portion of neighboring Iowa.
On Wednesday, Mr. Trump will hold two rallies in Arizona, one of which is just outside Nevada, a state Democrat Hillary Clinton won in 2016. A New York Times/Siena poll of Nevada released Tuesday showed Mr. Biden leading Mr. Trump by 6 percentage points among likely voters. Ms. Harris was set to appear Tuesday in Reno and Las Vegas.
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