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.
Solid strategy, right?
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.
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
The numbers, any way you slice it, are 50/50 right now.
Pennsylvania is anybody’s game, Georgia is ever so slightly in Trump’s favor but even winning Georgia won’t get Harris over the line on its own if she loses Pennsylvania.
This is terrifying, honestly.
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).
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I love that 94% of the states and like 99% of the population doesn’t matter when electing the president. Is this a sign of a healthy democracy?
Well, on average each state has 2% of the population. So, you could say any state with more than 6m people represents an above average population
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.
Isn’t it as much about showing up to vote than about changing minds who to vote for?
Yeah. Not unreasonable to say maybe 1% of registered voters are in play, so maybe 200,00 people or so.
Less than that in the 2000 election even if Gore wasn’t fucked over by SCOTUS.
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.
Zeno’s paradox in political format.
That’s not exactly the best comparison though because you have to run all 100 meters in the foot race, but in the presidential race you basically don’t have to run at all in the majority of states.
That analogy doesn’t work because in these models it’s a straight tie for those 94 meters and it’s the last 6 meters that are left. If the polling data is accurate (big if of course), then the other 47 states cancel each other out in EC votes, so it’s down to these 3.
Foot races, at the professional level, decided by fractions of a second…
I think you might not understand how analogies work.
It’s being decided by all the states. Swing states are simply the ones that pollsters can’t accurately predict.
It’s not but ok
Those 3 states are huge, but the other swing states are definitely still a factor. If Harris wins all 3 Blue Wall states, she very likely will win the presidency. However, if she doesn’t win all 3, then either candidate’s victory will likely be decided by the other swing states - Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina, and Georgia.
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.
That “Oh, honey” got me chortling.
doing donuts in a Pittsburgh
Well, he could also head down to Philly, and hold a rally at the Four Seasons (Total Landscaping).
