GOP worried about Trump wasting time in unwinnable California shouting "build that wall!l
Republican concerns over Trump’s campaign extend beyond his comments to his strategy. After cementing his role as nominee following the May 3 Indiana primary, Trump has taken long stretches off the trail and, when he is campaigning, has focused his time on blue states which still have primaries to come but which are virtually unwinnable for a Republican in the general election. California, where Trump held rallies over the past two weeks, was last won by a Republican nominee in 1988 by George H.W. Bush; a recent survey showed Clinton with a double-digit lead over Trump there.
“By any stretch of the GOP imagination, as many as 18 other states that Mitt Romney lost would probably be better targets for Donald Trump than California,” said Neil Newhouse, who was GOP nominee Mitt Romney’s pollster in 2012. “Recent polling indicates that it may not be far-fetched for the Trump campaign to believe they can expand the electoral playing field, but overreaching can expend scarce resources and divert them from states that are more realistic targets.”
During a three-day swing through the Golden State last week, Trump repeatedly told supporters he intends to contest the state in the fall. “I’m going to play heavy in California,” Trump said in Redding on Friday. “Right? I think we can win.”
Trump also said he harbors ambitions to wrest Oregon and Washington from Democratic hands. Neither state gone Republican since Ronald Reagan won them in his 1984 landslide.
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Trump shows little sign of changing course, and continues to champion policies that Ryan and other establishment Republicans oppose. At his Redding rally last week, for example, Trump led one of his regular chants on building a massive wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
“Build that wall!” Trump said to the cheering crowd.
“The wall got ten feet higher!” one man yelled out in response.
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