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(22,671 posts)
Mon Oct 19, 2020, 06:53 PM Oct 2020

Trump's suburban collapse costs him in Nebraska. Nebraska's 2nd District

Over the past half-century, Nebraska has only once delivered one of its electoral votes to a Democratic presidential nominee. Barring a turnaround, this year will mark the second time.

The state is one of just two in the nation — the other is Maine — that awards Electoral College votes by congressional district. In this reddest of red states, Donald Trump is on a trajectory to lose one of them.

In the 2nd District, which includes largely Democratic Omaha and its largely Republican suburbs, the president is running 6 or 7 percentage points behind Joe Biden, according to public and private polling.
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“If you look at the struggle that Trump has going on in the suburbs, it’s just super consistent,” said Ryan Horn, a Republican media strategist based in Omaha. “What you see in Nebraska 2 you’ll see in Dallas, Texas, you’ll see in Charlotte, North Carolina, you’ll see in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, you’ll see in Orange County, California … It’s super, super consistent.” - Politico


That would make me wanna dance like Christopher Walken. I'm going to feel shame if I can't help make my purple county blue.
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Trump's suburban collapse costs him in Nebraska. Nebraska's 2nd District (Original Post) ffr Oct 2020 OP
Sioux Falls is not like the others. TwilightZone Oct 2020 #1

TwilightZone

(25,473 posts)
1. Sioux Falls is not like the others.
Mon Oct 19, 2020, 07:40 PM
Oct 2020

Trump won Minnehaha County by 14%. It's not going to look anything like the 2nd District.

Sioux Falls is like a small, conservative town that just happens to have 180k people. It's basically Wichita, but in SD.

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