With three-and-a-half weeks till Election Day, former President Trump is holding a rally in Southern California on Saturday.
His marketing campaign additionally introduced this week that the Republican presidential nominee will maintain a rally in New York Metropolis’s Madison Sq. Backyard later this month.
On Friday, Trump stopped in Colorado, and on Tuesday he is scheduled to parachute into Illinois.
It has been 40 years since a Republican carried New York in a presidential election, 36 years since California and Illinois went pink in a White Home race, and twenty years for the reason that GOP captured Colorado.
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Former President Trump speaks at a rally in Uniondale, New York, on Sept. 18. (Julia Bonavita/Fox Information Digital)
With time a particularly valuable commodity for the presidential campaigns within the closing stretch of a White Home showdown in a margin-of-error race with Vice President Kamala Harris, many are questioning why Trump is stopping in blue states, which his possibilities of carrying are extraordinarily slim to nonexistent.
“We simply rented Madison Sq. Backyard. We will make a play. We will make a play for New York. Hasn’t been accomplished in a very long time. It hasn’t been accomplished in lots of many years,” Trump stated at a rally in Pennsylvania this week, hours after his marketing campaign introduced the New York Metropolis date.
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“We’re making a play for New Jersey. We’re making a play for Virginia,” Trump continued, earlier than including that he is additionally aiming to compete in Minnesota and New Mexico.
Regardless of the previous president’s bravado about increasing the electoral map, the newest Fox Information Energy Rankings within the 2024 presidential election rank New York, New Jersey, California and Colorado as stable Democrat, with Minnesota, New Mexico and Virginia as possible blue.
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Trump on Saturday will headline a rally in Coachella, a metropolis in California’s Riverside County southeast of Palm Springs that is greatest recognized nationally for a music competition that takes place close by each April.
“President Trump’s go to to Coachella will spotlight Harris’ poor document and present that he has the fitting options for each state and each American,” Trump marketing campaign spokesman Steven Cheung stated in an announcement.
The cease in Coachella might also profit Trump with Latino voters — who’ve been trending in the direction of the GOP lately — not solely in southeast California, however extra importantly in neighboring Arizona and Nevada, two of the seven essential battleground states that can possible decide if the previous president or Harris wins the 2024 election.
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Trump’s rally in Madison Sq. Backyard on Oct. 27 shall be his third main marketing campaign occasion in Democrat-dominated New York this 12 months.
Final month, he packed the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, simply outdoors of New York Metropolis. And he attracted 1000’s at a rally in NYC’s borough of The Bronx in Could.
He additionally held a big rally in Could alongside the shore in New Jersey.
Former President Trump gestures at a marketing campaign rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, on Could 11. (AP Photograph/Matt Rourke)
“Selecting high-impact settings makes it so the media can’t look away and refuse to cowl the problems and the options President Trump is providing,” a senior Trump marketing campaign adviser advised Fox Information when requested concerning the technique of holding October occasions in blue states. “We dwell in a nationalized media atmosphere and the nationwide media’s consideration on these large-scale, outside-the-norm settings will increase the attain of his message throughout the nation and penetrates in each battleground state.”
Longtime Republican strategist Jesse Hunt, a veteran of a number of GOP presidential campaigns, famous that these stops in blue states are much less about geography and extra concerning the message.
“Trump is creating a variety of distinctive and attention-grabbing distinction conditions that may then be beamed right into a mass viewers in states that they care about,” Hunt stated. “It’s a must to create compelling narratives, compelling contrasts. I feel that’s a part of what Trump is doing.”
Hunt argued that Trump is a professional “at creating these moments that penetrate our fractured media atmosphere” and that “voters in Georgia, voters in North Carolina, are actually going to eat information about Trump’s occasion in Madison Sq. Backyard.”
Former President Trump speaks throughout a marketing campaign rally within the South Bronx in New York Metropolis on Could 23. (Jim Watson/AFP through Getty Pictures)
Pointing to veteran marketing campaign strategists Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles, who’re steering Trump’s 2024 marketing campaign, Hunt stated they’re “a fairly good group… they usually’re not going to waste his time.”
Seasoned Republican strategist Matthew Bartlett agreed that “we’re at a degree the place every thing is nationalized.”
He argued that the Trump blue state occasions “will spin a whole information cycle. It would give his supporters speaking factors. And I feel there’s admiration of going into the stomach of the beast, to going into your opponent’s territory.”
Bartlett added that “after all, there’s a draw back.”
“Within the waning days, if this technique proves ineffective, it might be just like what Hillary Clinton did, which was mismanaged her time in the previous few days of 2016, by not being within the vital swing states, not being in locations the place you must drive turnout,” he warned.
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