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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump Campaign Looks at Electoral Map and Doesn't Like What It Sees
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/us/politics/trump-campaign-virus-protests-polls.htmlSigns of anxiety inside the Trump team are evident across the electoral map. Over the past few weeks, the presidents 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. Trumps 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. Trumps 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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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. Trumps 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. Trumps 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
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Trump Campaign Looks at Electoral Map and Doesn't Like What It Sees (Original Post)
highplainsdem
Jun 2020
OP
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)1. And that is why putin is advising him to end our freedoms, for good.
Cha
(297,180 posts)2. We Need That DICtator GONE.
LaMouffette
(2,030 posts)3. Wouldn't it be wonderful . . .
if Trump didn't win ANY states in November?