Trump takes 2020 roadshow to New Mexico

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President Trump will rally supporters in New Mexico tonight as he kicks off a West Coast swing where he will look to line his campaign coffers and make an ambitious push to expand the 2020 map past the Midwest firewall that delivered his 2016 victory.

Trump’s rally in Rio Rancho, N.M., a suburb of Albuquerque, will be his first campaign rally in the state since his 2016 victory, although Trump lost New Mexico by more than 8 points. New Mexico has also trended blue in years past. Democrats control the governorship, both Senate seats, all three House seats and the state legislature, presenting a steep climb for the Trump campaign and its ambitions to flip the state.

Republicans hope to capitalize on Democrats’ pursuit of environmental policies that could hurt the state’s oil-and-gas industry. In March, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed into law landmark energy legislation mandating emission-free electricity by 2045.

A few months ago, Oregon was the Trump campaign’s expand-the-map flirtation, CNN reported in June. In 2016, Hillary Clinton won Oregon by 11 points, and the last time the state voted for a GOP presidential candidate was 1984.

https://thehill.com/homenews/morning-report/461518-the-hills-morning-report

[Desert grandma]

1. I live in Albuquerque

Rio Rancho is more conservative than Albuquerque, but he will have a very hard time flipping our state. He lost by 8 points at a time when he was a novelty, and perhaps gained some votes because he presented "change." After 4 years of the Orange Buffoon, and an overwhelming negative approval rating, his campaign thinks they have a prayer here? He is a fool.