It’s silly to focus on NY or CA...wasted money and time.If focusing solely on states that Romney barely won and barely lost gets Trump to 269 then that’s what should be done.
If New York and California are seen as in play, the Dems will have to put resources there to keep them.
Not contesting those states allows them to use there resources in other states.
Trump is very popular in New York; I am not so certain about Hillary.
He is going to win those states as well
I think it is long overdue
We need a republican focusing on traditionally blue states and convert them to Trump states, we should have been doing that all along. Why give them 200 free EVs because the liberal show up and we end up making states like ohio and florida battle grounds
Redrawing the battle map is a sign of a leader, not another limp wristed beta male leaders we had the past few election cycles
Be bold, it won’t hurt, I promise
This is gamesmanship. Get Hillary to waddle her fat behind into exhaustion.
Burn her out. She is not fit physically.
California has become Mexifornia in the past twenty years, there must be millions of fed up voters who would be eager to vote for Trump.
Yes. California will not be close, maybe NY but I doubt it.
The exhaustion angle is important. During the primaries Trump showed amazing stamina, holding rallies at a breakneck pace that would be challenging for a man half his age. If he can force Hillary to try to match his schedule, the physical toll on her will be all-too-visible for all to see.
Trump wants to not just win but win big to give him a clear mandate. Certainly winning NY and CA would be electrifying and confer an undeniable mandate for exactly the sort of housecleaning that is needed.
Oregon should be a lock for the Dems too, but Trump is ahead of Hillary there already. I wouldn’t rule out CA in this election. Trump is a game changer.
Disagree. If he goes after those states, hlary will have to spend money to defend them.
You won’t change the country by ignoring half of it
But Trump is no Romney.
Thank God!
“Romney ... barely lost gets Trump to 269 then that’s what should be done.”
That’s the Karl Rove strategy. It got us into the Electoral College mess we are in now. Play things safe and hope to win just enough ... the “prevent” strategy.
It works sometimes (2004). It fails miserably other times (2008 & 2012 ... part of the 2006 mess was Rove reusing his tired strategy ... even 2000 came down to a coin toss for all intents and purposes).
When you play the ‘prevent’ strategy, you’ll eventually lose big time. The problem is that you sacrifice long term potential for short term gain. After a while, you are going to start to lose what you win “safely” since the Communists aren’t going to sit on their asses and enjoy losing. They adapt. As a result, we’ve seen VA and NC become purple since we were too concerned about holding on to what we have vs. growing.
The Democrats are making a similar mistake. They assume that they’ll always have a firm grip on minorities. People aren’t stupid. They eventually come around. While they like to shout “Demographics is destiny” in our faces, all of that nonsense can be erased with a conservative delivering on campaign promises. If Trump were to play a role in righting the economy and getting people back to work, we’d take a significant number of those minorities Democrats love to exploit and the Democratic party would fracture.
The GOP strategy to win majorities in lots of State Houses and Governor’s mansions was very wise ... that was NOT a ‘prevent’ strategy. That was a growth strategy and that helps build the farm team for federal elections (so long as they are not RINOs). However, it’s about time we adapted that state level strategy and used it for a POTUS campaign.
I’ll agree that states like CA are pretty much a lost cause. It’d take a miracle to win it. However, some parts of the Northeast and Midwest considered written off by the RINOs are certainly states a candidate like Trump can and will win.
I can assure you that Pennsylvania is 100% worth advertising dollars this time around. The Pittsburgh metro area is a perfect example of an area where Republicans have an opportunity to grow vs. ignore. They have an opportunity to offset Philadelphia nonsense by winning over people here in SW PA. Seeing that the rest of the state is fairly conservative, someone like Trump could certainly win by taking a relatively small risk and campaigning in this area. States like Wisconsin and Michigan are very similar to SW PA ... the same strategy that works in this area would work well in those two states + Ohio.
Call me greedy, but I want to see Trump go out there and win the POTUS election with historical margins and see the House and Senate remain in solid Republican control. I want to see tons of pictures of liberals crying much like they did when Bush beat Kerry. I want to see liberals panicking and packing their bags for Canada. If Trump earns a decisive mandate, the moderates in Congress will more than likely move to the right and we can FINALLY get things moving in the right direction.
The John McCains and the like aren’t going to have much of a voice this time around ... they could walk all over someone like Bush ... they won’t be able to do that to Trump. No “Gangs of N number of idiots” are going to have any power against someone who knows exactly how to negotiate for the win. I just hope and pray Trump means what he says ... we have an opportunity here to break the Democratic Party’s back, end the late 1960s, and restore quite a bit of sanity to the Republic. Liberalism will never fully go away, but we have the opportunity to bury it for a while if we get Trump in office and he delivers.
Respectivefuly disagree with I work in Santa Monica very very few Hillary Supports. The ones who are used to piping off and getting an amen chorus are getting crickets. This very Friday a guy went off on Donald making fun of him - nobody chimed in.
Maybe he doesn't win but he going force her to spend resources here.
We got to this point, by people bailing, moving out or quit voting, in states that started being taken over by Dems. Can’t change that if we don’t stand firm and put up a fight.
what #71 says too!
Perhaps - but he has shown that he is, in fact, capable of running that "lemonade stand".
Yeah! They said the same things to Reagan! spit
Trump is going for it ALL.......that’s his nature and he has the energy/will to do it.