Trump Focuses His Campaign On Midwest States Harmed By His Trade Wars

Donald Trump’s reelection campaign seems to understand that the President is facing an enormous uphill battle in 2020, so they’ve decided to focus the bulk of their efforts on winning states that the President lost in 2016, particularly Nevada, New Mexico, and New Hampshire. Without those electoral votes, his campaign believes that they do not have a path to victory, and they are likely correct. But considering the damage that Trump has done to so many states across the country, will the math ever get him to his goal? Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign understands that this man is facing a very tough path to victory in 2020 now, specifically the three states that Donald Trump was originally going to try to target, where Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, you know, some of those Midwest, uh, which Pennsylvania's not really Midwest yet. For some reason they classify it as such, but nonetheless, he wanted to go to those states because they have the electoral votes needed to put him into the Oval Office again for another four years. They helped propel him in 2016 he thought for sure they do the same in 2020 but then came the trade wars, then came his decision to do nothing about the water crisis in Michigan. Those states don't really like him and midterms in 2018 kind of prove that. So his campaign now has had to come up with a new strategy. They're saying, we don't think we're going to win these states this time, so how are we going to get to that magic number of 270 electoral votes?

And they think they've got a plan. They're going to go to New Hampshire, New Mexico, and Nevada, those three states, they think if they can flip those from blue to red, they're totally gonna run away with the 2020 presidential election. Now, for those doing math at home, it's important to understand that those three states do not have the same number of electoral votes as Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan. So I'm a little little confused as to why they picked those three to substitute for the other three, which again, makes zero sense. But nonetheless, these are states that also got rid of Republicans in 2018 because the voters are so pissed off at the Republican Party at Donald Trump and everything that's going on. And for some reason this campaign thinks, hey, you know, these states that really punish the GOP in 2018 those seem like good states for us to go hang out in.

I think we can win them, right? Uh, personally, honestly, I love the strategy. I encourage the Trump campaign to go full steam ahead. You need to go spend millions upon millions of millions of dollars up in New Hampshire over in, uh, Nevada. Yeah, you guys, totally. If you spend enough money, you're going to win those states, and that actually may not be sarcasm. There's a chance Donald Trump obviously could win some of those southern states. You've got to, or southwest states. You've got plenty of people down there who hate immigrants. Donald Trump hates immigrants. Hell, it's a match made in heaven, right? So yeah, he stands a good chance of winning those. But New Hampshire know New Hampshire a little bit, a little bit conservative, but I don't think that anything Trump has done personally has benefited anyone in the state of New Hampshire, other than members of top 1% who happened to live in that state.

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