Donald Trump is scrambling his defenses in states like Ohio and Iowa, where he was once expected to win easily. Yet he’s also competing hard in others, such as Minnesota and Nevada, that were once viewed as far out of his reach
2 percentage points there and he was not widely expected to compete seriously this year. But “there’s a lot of X factors at play in Nevada at the moment,” said Andres Ramirez, a Nevada-based Democratic strategist and former vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee’s Hispanic Caucus.
Republicans view their imperative as holding as many of those states open for as long as possible, creating as many paths to 270 Electoral College votes as they can in the event Trump loses any states he won in 2016. Rory McShane, a Nevada-based Republican strategist, said Trump still “puts a lot of states on the map that previous presidents haven’t,” including New Mexico, which Trump lost by 8 percentage points four years ago.
Trump may have difficulty financing such an expansion. Though Trump and the Republican National Committee still raised $210 million in August — an enormous sum, Trump also may be running out of time. In North Carolina, elections officials began sending ballots to voters earlier this month, and early voting will start in Minnesota on Sept. 18. Democrats have built a massive lead in absentee ballot requests across the battlegrounds. And Trump’s outlook hinges on an assumption that he will hold Florida, a state he won four years ago, but where he and Biden are now close to tied.
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