A.G. Gancarski
Donald Trump’s Presidential Election in 2016 was predicated on sweeping a trio of states (Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin) known as the “blue wall” because they had been Democratic holds for decades otherwise.
In 2024, these states combine for 44 of the 270 electoral votes necessary to win the election. And Trump’s former rival, Gov. Ron DeSantis, is expressing “concern” that Kamala Harris will do what Joe Biden did and hold all three, potentially narrowing Trump’s path to the White House.
“I would say the concern would just simply be, you know, to win, he can’t just win Georgia, Arizona, Nevada and North Carolina. He’s got to win one of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan,” DeSantis told Ben Shapiro this week.
“Those did not perform well for us in the Midterms, different than a Presidential Election, but what was going on in those states that we did so bad as Republicans and are we going to be able to get the turnout to be able to win one of those? You know, I think ultimately he’s in a good position to do that, but that was really what the election’s (going to come down to),” DeSantis added.
DeSantis has “doubt” that Harris can win “North Carolina and Georgia,” arguing that “she’s the most liberal candidate that’s ever been put up by the Democratic Party.”
“I know the demographics and those states have changed a little bit,” DeSantis acknowledged. “But I just don’t think that she’s going to do it. So she’s got to win all three of those (Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin). Donald Trump needs to win one of those.”
RealClearPolitics shows Harris is up by less than a point in the average Wisconsin and Michigan poll, while Trump is up by less than a point in the average Pennsylvania survey. These states look to be as closely contested as they were the last two times Trump was on the November ballot.
If Harris sweeps all three, she will have the 270 electoral votes necessary to win, assuming her campaign doesn’t collapse in another state where victory is expected.
10 comments
PeterH
November 1, 2024 at 10:06 am
There should be absolutely no shock or surprise that a hateful spiteful autocratic Republican convicted felon candidate who has deliberately disenfranchised every ethnic group and minority faction in America would lose to a highly qualified intelligent caring Democrat.
jean solomon
November 1, 2024 at 10:34 am
women have no illusions about Trumpf and the REPULICAN agenda; we have been there and done that..never again.. RON has better let go the Trumpf coat tails and become his own man or JD VANCE willl bury him.
A Day without MAGA
November 1, 2024 at 10:56 am
Google Trump Epstein
Dont Say FLA
November 1, 2024 at 11:13 am
Credit where credit’s due:
Rhonda absolutely knows about total and complete failure to crack so much as just one nut.
Iowa 99. Rhonda 0.
Florida’s taxpayers also 0.
I Am Garbage
November 1, 2024 at 11:19 am
I wouldn’t be overly confident. This one could go either way. You hate Trump and Kammy is incompetent. Pick your poison.
A Day without MAGA
November 1, 2024 at 11:41 am
It not gonna go your way, because Black and other minority are the king and queen makers,their is not White people in the Republican party to make a different, White people in these states think critically
I Am Garbage
November 1, 2024 at 12:06 pm
I need my Jrral code book
For that one.
Michael K
November 1, 2024 at 11:22 am
Ron and DonOLD’s “whether they like it or not” approach does not play well with people who value real and true freedom. Contrary to what they think and believe, America has not been a “bad girl and does not need a good spanking from daddy.”
Just ask the people in Iowa how much they liked what Ron was trying to sell.
Dont Say FLA
November 1, 2024 at 11:31 am
Agree! If Florida were really free, they wouldn’t have to try and convince us by constantly referring to it as “The Free State of Florida,” thinking if they repeat their lie frequently enough and for long enough, sooner or later we’ll believe it.
I Am Garbage
November 1, 2024 at 11:38 am
Florida is free. How soon you forget about wet sand, dry sand Garcetti. DeSantis kept the state open. You in the minority don’t like him but the majority in the state of Florida love him