Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump made an unusual foray Saturday night into deep-blue CT, pledging to make “a big play” for the Democratic stronghold. “Normally the party wouldn’t make a play”, Trump told the crowd in a sweltering Fairfield gym.
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Pence made several campaign appearances Saturday, boosting Indiana Lt. Gov. Eric Holcomb, who took the Republican vice presidential nominee’s spot on the state ballot for governor shortly after Pence was tapped.
Trump then unleashed criticism on his opponent Hillary Clinton and Connecticut’s Democratic governor Dannel Malloy.
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Clinton hours earlier tweeted a link from her campaign website that argued she would bring 116,000 new jobs to CT while she said Trump would cost it almost 38,000 jobs. “The newspaper is going to hell”, he said, just before bringing up the idea of revoking the outlet’s credentials.
GOP nominee Donald Trump will be in Fairfield this weekend.
“How do you lose General Electric?”
CT hasn’t voted for a Republican since 1988, when it selected George H.W. Bush for president.
He called her “four more years of Obama, four more years of ISIS” and repeated his claim that President Barack Obama founded the Islamic State group.
The decision of the Trump campaign to spend time in CT has left some scratching their heads, as the state is solidly blue.
“I am not running against Crooked Hillary”, Trump said.
There hasn’t been much polling out of the Constitution State, but the few surveys that have come out show Clinton leading Trump comfortably there. In recent history CT has leaned reliably Democratic in presidential elections.
Yes, Trump is heading to CT on Saturday, where he hopes to shore up support in a state that hasn’t voted for a Republican since 1988 and isn’t on anybody’s list of key battleground states this year.
However, Fasano has not gone as far as former U.S. Rep. Chris Shays, who endorsed Clinton last week.
Former Republican Senate candidate Linda McMahon is the vice chairman of the university’s board of trustees.
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At a time when the Clinton campaign and the media are pushing the narrative that traditionally red states including Arizona, Georgia, or even Utah, could be in play, it would be a strong counter-punch for Trump to flip a state or two on the traditional map himself.
