Well, a handful did NOT decide it. Even if we win, the fact is the GOP has failed in seven election cycles to carry NY, CA, IL, ME, CT, RI, DE, HI, and so on. This isn’t minor stuff. You cannot cede 150 electoral votes right out of the gate and compete for OH, FL, VA and a few others. So it isn’t that those states decide the elections, it’s that we haven’t found a way to penetrate the thick skulls of the other 150 EVs.
Well if you can’t win ohio then forget about CA. There is an entrenched block that will always vote dem. It would be extremely difficult if not impossible for a conservative to win some of those states. Too much entrenched socialism and lots of brainwashed people. This would take years of re-education to overcome and liberals control education and the MSM