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Trump campaign pulls away from three target states after Harris surge

Donald Trump has quietly wound down his presidential campaign in states he was targeting just six weeks ago amid polling evidence showing that Kamala Harris’s entry into the presidential race has put them out of reach and narrowed his path to the White House.

The Republican presidential nominee’s campaign has diverted resources away from Minnesota, Virginia and New Hampshire – states Trump was boasting he could win while Joe Biden was the Democratic candidate – to focus instead on a small number of battleground states.

Money is being poured into the three “blue wall” states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, which were all carried by Biden in 2020 and are seen as vital to the outcome of November’s election.

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garretble ,
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solidgrue ,
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SeaJ ,

Unfortunately Harris’ lead in the polls in the battleground states has dropped a little bit. I’m guessing that is due to RFK Jr dropping out.

Beacon ,

Seriously!! People have to stop thinking this is in the bag, because it very VERY is NOT!

https://www.natesilver.net/p/nate-silver-2024-president-election-polls-model

UnderpantsWeevil ,
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The Republican presidential nominee’s campaign has diverted resources away from Minnesota, Virginia and New Hampshire

Uh… how many you got left? Is this going to end with Trump doing donuts in a Pittsburgh Walmart parking lot, hoping to swing the Hooner vote?

Money is being poured into the three “blue wall” states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin

Oh, honey. You’re not winning Wisconsin.

TransplantedSconie ,

That “Oh, honey” got me chortling.

grue ,

Trump doesn’t care if he legitimately gets the most votes in any particular state. All he cares about is having MAGA election officials refuse to sign off on the counts in order to cause enough chaos and distrust that the MAGA SCOTUS steps in and either hands him the presidency directly or declares enough results invalid that the decision gets punted to a “one state, one vote” poll in the House (which would be absolutely dominated by red states in that situation).

Maeve ,

Solid strategy, right?

tiefling , (edited )

I love that the election is decided by 3 states containing less than 10% of the population

Pennsylvania: 13M
Wisconsin: 6M
Michigan: 10M
Total US: 333M
29/333 = 8.7%

AmidFuror ,

That's like saying the first 94 meters of a 100 meter race don't matter because the last 6 meters decide the winner. If you don't finish the last 6 meters ahead, you've lost.

tal , (edited )
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I mean, if you’re going to use that metric, you might as well go smaller, because a lot of people in those states have already made up their mind. It’s only voters who might be willing to choose or adjust their vote that are in play.

Only the states that are still undecided enough to tip, and within those, only the voters whose position is still undecided enough to potentially tip.

Windex007 ,

Yeah. Not unreasonable to say maybe 1% of registered voters are in play, so maybe 200,00 people or so.

FlyingSquid ,
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Less than that in the 2000 election even if Gore wasn’t fucked over by SCOTUS.

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