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Wed Nov 24, 2021, 05:25 AM Nov 2021

Trump poll tests his 2024 comeback map [View all]




Trump poll tests his 2024 comeback map

The former president is targeting five swing states that are pivotal to his hopes of winning back the White House.
Donald Trump speaks at a rally.


https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/23/trump-2024-map-523230



11/23/2021 04:30 AM EST

As Donald Trump builds out a presidential-campaign-in-waiting, his team is focusing on an electoral strategy that relies on recapturing the five states that flipped to Joe Biden in 2020.

The five states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — delivered a total of 73 electoral votes in 2020, enough to produce a decisive Electoral College victory for Biden. Since then, Trump has held four rallies, endorsed dozens of candidates and played a key role in shaping contests that could put his allies in top offices in those states in 2024.




Trump’s shadow campaign also recently polled Trump-Biden matchups in the five states, all of which were decided in 2020 by fewer than 3 percentage points. According to the poll, a memo of which was obtained by POLITICO, the former president led Biden in Arizona by 8 percentage points, Georgia by 3 points, Michigan by 12 points, Pennsylvania by 6 points and Wisconsin by 10 points.


The poll numbers send a message to those who think Trump’s grip on the Republican Party is loosening, said Tony Fabrizio, a top GOP pollster who conducted the surveys for Trump’s super PAC, “Make America Great Again, Again!”
Trump's influence keeps haunting Washington, explained

“Poll after poll clearly demonstrates that former President Donald Trump is still the 800-pound gorilla in the GOP and would be its 2024 nominee should he run,” said Fabrizio, who confirmed the numbers for POLITICO but did not provide them. “This new data clearly shows that today the voters in these five key states would be happy to return Trump to the White House and send Biden packing.”

In another sign that Trump is gearing up for a White House bid, his super PAC is holding its biggest planned fundraiser to date on Dec. 2, when the nation’s top Republican donors are expected to gather at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Fla......................................
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What a nightmare. SammyWinstonJack Nov 2021 #1
You believe that? True Blue American Nov 2021 #2
Not to worry. 634-5789 Nov 2021 #3
A bet that Trump will wither and fade by 2024 is a bet that... CincyDem Nov 2021 #4
TFG will not or will not be able to run in 2024. This is just a scam to fleece money from suckers. Botany Nov 2021 #5
+1 bucolic_frolic Nov 2021 #7
NY Attorney General has TFG on fraud charges: He valued a building for almost 1/2 a billion when .. Botany Nov 2021 #9
Message auto-removed Name removed Nov 2021 #6
Polls conducted by "Trump's shadow campaign." Downtown Hound Nov 2021 #8
Well, that's it then. SergeStorms Nov 2021 #10
It can't happen twice because it couldn't happen once. twodogsbarking Nov 2021 #11
Wait... what? MustBeTheBooz Nov 2021 #12
I don't buy the numbers. LiberalFighter Nov 2021 #13
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