Trump EYEING Tough Swing STATE
In a presidential election, a Republican hasn’t won New Hampshire, a swing state, in twenty-four years. You have to go back to George W. Bush, the governor of Texas in 2000. Then, President Bush was defeated in the Granite State just four years later when he ran for reelection, beginning a losing record that continues to this day.
Republicans, however, are growing more optimistic that they can end the losing streak in the wake of two recent polls that showed a margin-of-error race in New Hampshire and President Biden’s incredibly rough debate performance nine days ago in his first primetime face-to-face matchup with former President Trump.
New Hampshire is very much in play, according to Steve Stepanek, the top Trump advisor in the state, who stated as much to Fox News.
In contrast, Kathy Sullivan, a former head of the state party and member of the Democratic National Committee, noted that “New Hampshire is not Trump-friendly territory” and that “there’s nothing changing the dynamic now in terms of Biden versus Trump in New Hampshire.”
A significant portion of the campaign spotlight has been focused on the seven crucial battlegrounds that determined the 2020 election from the beginning of Biden and Trump’s rematch in the general election four months ago. These states include North Carolina, which Trump won by the narrowest of margins, and Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada, which Biden just about won four years ago.
Minnesota and Virginia, two blue-leaning states in presidential campaigns, were targeted by Trump’s team beginning in May, with his top aides declaring that they were “clearly in play.”
Later that month, Trump was the main attraction at a Minnesota GOP fundraising dinner. This past week, the day following his debate with Biden, Trump hosted a sizable rally in Virginia.
For Biden, the oldest president in American history at 81, the argument was a serious blow. The Democratic Party was thrown into a state of panic by his stammering responses and slow delivery during the Atlanta confrontation, and he was increasingly called to resign as the party’s 2024 standard-bearer.
In retaliation, Biden is now seeking to convince Americans that he still possesses the endurance and mental clarity necessary to manage the hardest and most taxing job on the planet, as well as the strength and stamina necessary to overcome Trump.
Following the debate earlier this week, renowned nonpartisan political analyst Sabato’s Crystal Ball moved two significant states in favor of Trump.
Both Michigan and Minnesota saw a change from “Leans Democrat” to “Toss-up” and from “Likely Democrat” to “Leans Democrat.”
According to a Saint Anselm College Survey Center poll taken in New Hampshire following the debate, Trump was leading Biden by two points, which was within the survey’s sample error. The survey was taken after a poll by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center in late May, which gave Biden a single-digit lead.
Neil Levesque, executive director of Saint Anselm College’s New Hampshire Institute of Politics, stated, “I do think we are in a battleground right now.” “You are likely to see states that are similar to ours that show it’s tied up or Trump has the lead.”
