Trump campaign plots winning maps without Florida (but insists they won't be needed)

[brooklynite]

Source: McClatchy

President Donald Trump’s campaign a year ago envisioned an election scenario where the incumbent president expanded the boundaries of modern electoral politics by winning every state he won four years ago and adding half a dozen others.

Their ideal election now a distant dream, Trump’s advisers in the final weeks of the campaign, mapped out more dire possibilities showing ways their candidate could lose key states like Florida and still win reelection by conquering a series of Upper Midwest states.

One scenario has Trump losing Florida and Arizona but still receiving 270 electoral votes, the minimum needed to win. The other shows Trump losing North Carolina and Florida and receiving 272 electoral votes.

“Now, by no means do we think the president is not going to carry Florida,” director of battleground strategy Nick Trainer cautioned reporters during a recent virtual briefing in which he presented the potential election maps — including two that had Trump losing Florida.

Campaign manager Bill Stepien immediately jumped in to reiterate: “Let me say it again: The president will win Florida.”

Read more: https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article245760810.html

[calguy]

1. Sounds like reality is catching up with them

Good luck winning states like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. This is not 2016.

[Fiendish Thingy]

2. He can't and won't win without Florida nt

[Hip2bSquare]

3. Could this be real??

They're honestly planning strategies on how they might win without Florida?? I'm scared to death that he still might win reelection and they are planning on the possiblility of losing Florida.

Just this once I hope they are right...if they lose Florida, he's gone.

[AZ8theist]

4. This is foolishness with an audience of one...

These ass-clowns will present any absurd scenario to appease their man-baby boss.

Yes men with nothing left. The "Baghdad Bob" of the current White House staff.

It's a fucking joke.

[paleotn]

5. That's insane. Absolutely insane...

They're out of their fucking minds. Lose just FL and he's done. FL and AZ or FL and NC, it's a wipe out. And that's with Biden losing PA, which probably won't happen. Upper Midwest states? They're trailing by double digits in MN. High single to double digits in MI. The only one their close in is WI, god help me I don't know why, where their down close to the margin of error in recent polls. It's crazy shit. Pure crazy shit.

[chriscan64]

6. He will break out the Red Sharpie

and call the networks to tell them they have to use his "official" map.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

9. LOL, totally.

[James48]

7. Don't count them out.

The biggest mistake would be to take ANYTHING for granted.

Trump can win- and it’s going to be a hell of a battle every step of the way to defeat him. Work like there is no tomorrow, because if he wins- there won’t be..

[beachbumbob]

8. delusional and magical thinking won't win this election