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TexasTowelie

(116,301 posts)
Sun Nov 3, 2019, 02:09 AM Nov 2019

Trump team hopes to expand base to new states Democrats hold now, including Colorado

If the president can successfully make places like Colorado and New Mexico competitive, he would give himself many more paths to victory


Flush with cash, Donald Trump’s re-election team envisions a greatly expanded campaign map in which he’ll challenge his Democratic opponent in blue states he narrowly lost in 2016, including Minnesota, Colorado and even New Mexico and Oregon.

Trump’s campaign spent just $30,000 in Minnesota in 2016 and lost by only 1.5 percentage points. This time around, the campaign plans to pour millions of dollars into the state in order to win its 10 electoral college votes.

His campaign has also hired staff in Colorado, which he lost by about 5 points, and in New Mexico, which he lost by 8. The campaign had about $156 million on hand at the end of the third quarter, more than twice as much as Barack Obama’s re-election campaign at the same point in 2011.

“They certainly have more money to work with and early money and big money,” Ken Bickers, a political science professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder, said in a telephone interview. “He’s not having to spend it in the primary.”

Read more: https://www.denverpost.com/2019/11/01/trump-hopes-expand-base-democratic-states-colorado/
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Trump team hopes to expand base to new states Democrats hold now, including Colorado (Original Post) TexasTowelie Nov 2019 OP
So what he has cash? boomer_wv Nov 2019 #1
exactly MFM008 Nov 2019 #3
If only America had a Opperating FEC SterlingPound Nov 2019 #2
Colorado is ready and we vote on paper ballots. mountain grammy Nov 2019 #4
And our Secretary of State... Gumboot Nov 2019 #6
Yes I believe we will. Long time coming. mountain grammy Nov 2019 #7
We already have too many Trumpers tikka Nov 2019 #5

MFM008

(19,989 posts)
3. exactly
Sun Nov 3, 2019, 04:32 AM
Nov 2019

a million dollars wouldn't change my vote, and that's if he tried to give to me in a check.

Gumboot

(531 posts)
6. And our Secretary of State...
Sun Nov 3, 2019, 10:41 AM
Nov 2019

... got rid of that nasty CrossCheck voter purging system too, so everyone who's registered will be able to vote.

Which means... Colorado will be staying blue!


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