One would never get it from watching the MSM (including Fox), but Trump has many paths to 270 as it stands. Right now, the Real Clear Politics averages of polls has him slightly leading, or within the MOE in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Virginia, New Hampshire.
Fact is, he doesn't need any of those states (though it would certainly help) to get to 270.
From the polling data analysis on Breitbart:
The reliably red Republican states—Alaska, Idaho, Utah, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Indiana, Mississippi, Kentucky, Alabama, Tennessee, West Virginia, and South Carolina—are all expected to easily vote for Trump for president. That totals 164 electoral votes.
And add in:
Georgia and Arizona, both of those states—per recent polling—have seemingly moved solidly into the Trump column. That’s another 27 electoral votes, for a total of 191 electoral votes with the other red states.
Florida with 29 electoral votes
Nevada and Iowa for a total of 12 more electoral votes
Maine’s Second Congressional District -and that is just one electoral vote
North Carolina’s 15 electoral votes
Then:
If Trump locks up Ohio’s 18 electoral votes, and adds them to everything else, he is at 266 electoral votes.
If Trump secures Colorado’s 9 electoral votes, along with everything else considered, he would win at least 275 electoral votes.
My opinion, she proves consistently day in and day out that she has no plan to improve the condition of the nation.
Most rational thinking adults realize you cannot simply ignore 20 Trillion dollars worth of debt and somehow think that solar panels and unicorn dust are going to save the country.
Most rational thinking adults realize that her tax plan is going to cripple the middle class and leave this country in a fiscally untenable condition for their children.
Most rational thinking adults realize that more regulations only cripple energy independence and keep us permanently reliant on the middle east for energy ( not surprising, considering how much money she takes from them).
Most rational thinking adults - even left leaning adults, realize that her appointments to the SCOTUS would irrevocably change the fabric on the nation towards a marxist-socialist state.
The right is coalescing around him each and every day. The NeverTrump movement is dead. Independents, while admittedly not thrilled with him, are seeing his vision as one that provides a better future for their children.
Gary Johnson has all but given up, Stein is drawing what few supporters she has away from HRC, and in a 2 way race, it is becoming more clear that Trump is likelier in the end.
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