Reality TV host turned convicted felon Donald Trump's third presidential campaign is surrendering in Virginia, New Hampshire, and Minnesota, and focusing entirely on stopping the bleeding in states considered safe red pre-Trump like Georgia, Arizona, and North Carolina
They're hoping this will lead to a less humiliating defeat than the one Trump, the first incumbent to lose his reelection bid in 28 years, suffered in 2020 to Joe Biden
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/05/trump-swing-state-harrisDonald 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.
Special attention is being paid to Pennsylvania, which has 19 electoral college votes, and where a new CNN poll shows Trump and Harris tied at 47% each.
Resources have also been transferred to southern and south-western Sun belt states – namely North Carolina, Georgia Nevada and Arizona – where Trump previously had healthy leads over Biden that have been whittled away since Harris replaced the US president at the top of the Democratic ticket.
Maga Inc, a Trump-supporting Super Pac, has recently spent $16m in adverts in North Carolina as polls have shown Harris close to drawing even in a state the Democrats carried just once in presidential elections since 1980.
