Meanwhile, the Trump campaign sees new opportunities in Democratic strongholds, particularly in the Northeast and industrial Midwest.
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Trump has repeatedly countered Romney’s attacks, calling him a “choker” and claiming “I’ve got a store worth more than he is”.
The newest and biggest prize of the cycle might be Pennsylvania. Sanders is most likely hoping to benefit from the added press leading up to the crucial California primary.
No question all this interest in voting is great for democracy. While the state has not picked a Republican for president since 1992, a recent Quinnipiac University poll showed Clinton leading Trump by just one point, 43 percent to 42 percent.
“The Republicans are over their nominating contest and starting to heal their wounds”, he said.
According to Reuters, Democratic strategist Brad Bannon lauded the move by Bernie Sanders to agree on a debate, arguing that it would send a good signal to voters before the California primary.
To be sure, the path to the White House will include such battleground states from recent elections as Florida and Ohio. “But I knew it would take some time for people to figure out what he was about and what he was going to do and it’s finally happening”.
Many of these traditional swing states rank among the Electoral College’s top prizes thanks to their large populations.
Political campaigning is part ideology and part strategy.
Basking in his newly sealed nomination at a later campaign rally in Billings, Montana, Trump said he expected to put 15 states in play in the general election, compared with three or four for a traditional Republican. They think it’ll be (as Trump also said) the highest rating ever on whatever network that would run it. Super PACs advised by Trump-skeptic Karl Rove are using the hashtag “NeverHillary” on Twitter to promote online videos about her perceived scandals – even as Rove says the groups aren’t likely to spend money boosting Trump. Maine’s Second Congressional District, which includes the northern portion of the state, is now represented by a Republican. But with Clinton as the only alternative, she said her decision is simple. Trump’s supporters lustily cheered his shameful invective to show they are mad as hell at Washington, D.C. Or at least that’s their story.
There’s still time for independent voters to request a Democratic ballot, and they can even do that at their polling place on Election Day.
But a WBUR poll out this week showed the New Hampshire race as a statistical tie between Clinton and Trump.
What’s more, numerous race’s dynamics are still shifting.
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Now, as things pivot toward a general election campaign nearly certain to match Trump against Hillary Clinton, television news producers will be watched to see whether traditional notions of fairness and equal time will take hold in a political season that has been anything but traditional. But “people usually revert to their partisan predispositions”. “We’ve got to start right here in California making the future that we want to see for our country, for our children and grandchildren”, she said.
