Posted on 07/20/2016 1:06:10 PM PDT by Innovative
"Every time he meets with me, he asks me...'Can I win California?'" said McCarthy, a Republican from Bakersfield, at an event hosted by Politico's Playbook.
McCarthy said he replies: "Well, I don't think so. It's pretty difficult."
That's an understatement. California is one of the deepest blue states in the country. It hasn't backed a Republican for the White House since George H.W. Bush won in 1988.
The Trump team insists they'll play well in Democratic-friendly terrain like Connecticut, Oregon and New Jersey, and that Trump will campaign in blue states.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
The key is to have a huge turnout for Trump in every state, to counteract all the Dem fraudulent ballots.
Just a trap laid by the Dems for Trump to waste his resources.
LET’S DO IT!
DT can win California!
But since the state’s mass media is so solidly against him and R’s in general,
he will need to CAMPAIGN and also fund a really big Get Out The Vote effort with rides to the polls ... and fund also a super-sized POLL WATCHING effort to help cut down on the Massive support the D party bosses have amongst the Illegal Voter and Deceased Voter demographics
no spending....no winning.
Good, fight for every state!!! So tired of this nonsense that is concede most of the map and then just try to win the GOTV effort in a handful!
Long past time to stop that nonsense!
Fight for it Trump, don’t give it up...
Carter Reagan
The District of Columbia 74.82% 13.44%
Georgia 55.78% 40.97%
Hawaii 44.80% 42.90%
Maryland 47.14% 44.18%
Minnesota 46.50% 42.56%
Rhode Island 44.67% 37.20%
West Virginia 49.81% 45.30%
http://www.infoplease.com/askeds/recalling-reagan-revolution.html
In 1984 Reagan was re-elected with 525 electoral votes from 49 states. His opponent Walter Mondale, this time running with Geraldine Ferraro, managed only 13 electoral votes. The only states that Reagan did not win in his landslide victory were Minnesota (where he received 49.54% of the vote) and the District of Columbia (where he received 13.73% of the vote).
The left here votes for ca-Ching in their wallets.
#1. Over a third of all the nations welfare is here.
#2. Huge amount of over paid government employees employed and funding the Democrat party here.
Failed Governor Brown in the 70s gave away our water.
Same idiot allowed unions in government employment and now we have a 250 billion dollar unfounded pension hole in our budget.
Being everything under. Democrats is in the crapper it is possible lots of Democrats stay home and Republicans, Independents and some Democrats could go for Trump.
There are a lot more conservatives in CA than most people realize, a lot of ex and current military. The OC has a fair share of conservatives as does San Diego. There are also a lot of rural areas.
They keep getting good ballot initiatives passed only to have the courts demolish the will of the voters.
But it’s telling that there are enough sensible voters to pass border enforcement and traditional marriage initiatives.
I’m not saying Trump can take CA—there is so much union corruption he’ll have to beat back. But it may be worth giving it a tumble.
Not possible with all the dead and illegals voting two or three times for democraps.
It's a trap, it's a waste of resources... What? Some yard signs shipped to GOP centers across the state? Forget media buys, just get the print shops rolling and pour out bumper stickers, buttons, yard signs and double size signs, with PDF files for all available for download and local printing for those who don't want to make the drive but have a local large format printer nearby.
The cost to blanket California in promotional materials is less than the media buyers will take as their cut for buys in swing states. And as liberals lash out against Trump supporters across the state, they'll simply make it that much harder for Hillary.
Unless, . . . maybe its a psyop to get the Dems to spend time and money to shore up a sure thing.
[Not possible with all the dead and illegals voting two or three times for democraps.]
And with ID laws in TX and WI overturned, this election is going to be more difficult to fight the fraud than 2012
Donald Trump will win California with 51% of the Hispanic vote.
I think there’s a chance this year that the traditional “blue/red” divide will not hold, and it will be exposed as a function of the candidates that the parties have chosen, and not a function of something primarily inherent in the states.
If Trump wins, he will probably flip some “blue” states. But are they really “Blue” or “Red?” I think Trump should get his own color (Green?), as it’s a new dynamic at work.
Bah, leave that to the hands of volunteers here and don't blow the money on the GOTV effort in California. Most of the ballot will be liberal anyway, not much point to driving people to the polls just to rubber stamp the liberal morons. Had the smart candidates consolidated their primary efforts so there was one Republican candidate for each office AND they hitched their wagons to the Trump star early, there'd be some profit in GOTV spending here. Save that cash for easier pickings; let the volunteers hammer out what they can.
Trump shouldn’t waste his resources there where I would imagine there is a large deficit. He’s either winning or in striking distance in the swing states, and he should concentrate on them. He wins those, the election is his.
I want to see some ads, though I am sick and tired of only seeing Hillary Clinton’s ads on TV, so I hope for ads this fall. There is so much material to hit her with. Ads are a great way to bypass the media and show people things the media won’t.
Rove fell for that one in 2010 and threw away $50M which all went to the MSM as political ads.
Lets not do that again.
They understood the traitorous leftist not only looted them, but rigged the elections by compromising and undermining them. Just like the federal government was attempting to do by seeding to all points, tens of millions of illegals into the country. Not to mention their reckless, dangerous chain immigration policies.
I fully expect to see several million voting who otherwise would not have,just for the pay back factor alone.
I’m betting he will not spend time in CA.
Its a bridge too far and a very liberal state.
Demographics are different from Reagan’s day when most Democrats there thought and voted like Republicans.
They’re all liberal now.
I agree, same for New York
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