{"id":2273227,"date":"2024-06-21T06:16:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T10:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/team-biden-quieter-about-electoral-college-reach-states-than-trump-campaign\/"},"modified":"2024-06-21T06:23:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T10:23:59","slug":"team-biden-quieter-about-electoral-college-reach-states-than-trump-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/team-biden-quieter-about-electoral-college-reach-states-than-trump-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden&#8217;s team less vocal on Electoral College &#8216;reach&#8217; states compared to Trump campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fteam-biden-quieter-about-electoral-college-reach-states-than-trump-campaign%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2273227&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses how \u200chistorically unsuccessful MLB teams like the Seattle Mariners and the Milwaukee Brewers are currently leading\u2063 their respective\u200d divisions, drawing a parallel to political underdogs who\u2064 have made comebacks. Specifically, it links the phenomenon to the \u2063political resilience of figures \u200clike President Joe \u2063Biden, who won the presidency on his third attempt after unsuccessful bids in\u200b 1988 and 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200dnarrative extends to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-rnc-launches-new-year-round-election-integrity-department-ahead-of-2024\/\" title=\"RNC creates year-round Election Integrity Department for 2024.\">upcoming presidential race<\/a>, emphasizing the\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/every-state-is-now-a-border-state-trump-visits-michigan-to-address-illegal-immigrants-alleged-murder-of-25-year-old-woman\/\" title=\"Trump visits Michigan to address alleged murder of 25-year-old woman by illegal immigrant, citing that every state is now a border state\">vital battleground states<\/a> for Electoral College success. While\u200c discussing potential swing states, the article points \u200cout \u200cthat Democrats are considering Texas\u2014a traditionally Republican state\u2014as a possible but optimistic target due to narrowing GOP victory margins in recent elections, despite Republican dominance since\u200c 1980.<\/p>\n<p>A detailed look at Texas reveals doubt about the Democrats winning\u200b there, despite Biden&#8217;s multiple campaign visits and certain suburban electoral\u2063 gains. Meanwhile, Republicans are focusing on Minnesota as a reach state \u2062they aim to flip, leveraging strong appeals\u200d to specific voter demographics and emphasizing past narrow\u200b election margins favoring the GOP.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the article highlights the fluctuating landscape\u2062 of American politics mirrored in the\u2063 unexpected successes in baseball, underscoring\u2063 that underdogs can sometimes lead, whether in sports or elections.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>HOUSTON \u2014<\/strong> A pair of decades-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/MLB\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>MLB <\/a>teams that have never won a World Series lead their divisions. The Seattle Mariners hold first place in the American League West, and the Milwaukee Brewers are out front in the National League Central. While the Cleveland Guardians, which last won a World Series in 1948, lead the American League Central.<\/p>\n<p>Their stellar on-the-field performances, so far this season, are a reminder that even most moribund teams can come back and win. It\u2019s similar in politics, where nothing is static. The halls of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Congress<\/a> are filled with lawmakers who lost previous races but persevered and made it into high office. Even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/?source=%2Fnews%2Fbiden-wants-shut-gitmo-down-construction-9-11-trial-ramps-up&#038;utm_source=google&#038;utm_medium=cpc&#038;utm_campaign=WE_Pmax_Section-News&#038;gad_source=1&#038;gclid=Cj0KCQjw4MSzBhC8ARIsAPFOuyWdmRaPMogNP1JpomkdrutUsvorWoxBCOltvegqexiPNqvbRnsb3ZMaAqYTEALw_wcB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>President Joe Biden<\/a> didn\u2019t win the White House until his third try, in 2020, after failed efforts stretching back to 1988 and then 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Still, at least this year, the maxim is likely to play out more on the baseball diamond than the presidential race, between Biden and former President Donald Trump, the incumbent\u2019s vanquished 2020 Republican rival. In a politically divided nation, both sides agree that winning an Electoral College majority, 270 or more votes, comes down to Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Democrats are eying North Carolina, which former President Barack Obama won in 2008 but has since returned to its GOP voting ways. And New Hampshire is appealing for Republicans, where party members hold the Granite State\u2019s governorship and both legislative chambers.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s where \u201creach\u201d states come in. Those thought to be safely in one camp but, under the right circumstances, could flip.<\/p>\n<p>For Democrats, it\u2019s Texas, the behemoth, second-most-populous state in the nation, which has 40 electoral votes. Realistically, each baseball club now in first place stands a better chance of breaking its World Series championship drought than Democrats do of winning Texas in the 2024 presidential race. Virtually no serious analysts think Biden will be able to topple Trump in the Lone Star State, which has backed Republican nominees from 1980 on.<\/p>\n<p>Still, recent shrinking margins of victory by GOP presidential candidates and some reasonably close calls in statewide races must make Democrats at least give Texas a second glance in their Electoral College math. A closely watched Senate race featuring a political figure reviled by Democrats, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) could help boost turnout significantly. And there\u2019s even a baseball analogy they can cling to. The Texas Rangers are the reigning 2023 World Series champions, their first title in more than half a century of play in Arlington.<\/p>\n<p>For Republicans, the top reach target is Minnesota. A shift to Trump in the upper Midwest state would almost certainly reflect an overall poor performance by Biden and mean likely victory by the Republican ticket. The Biden campaign and Minnesota Democrats, known as the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, are likely to keep a close watch on Trump\u2019s poll movement there over the next four months-plus until Election Day.<\/p>\n<h2>Texas Hold \u2018em on Democratic campaign spending<\/h2>\n<p>Texas, home to more than 30 million people, is a huge political prize. Democrats have long had their eye on flipping the state.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>President Joe Biden speaks at the Border Patrol station in Brownsville, Texas, Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024. (Jay Janner\/Austin American-Statesman via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cDuring the 2020 presidential campaign, Democrats had visions of winning Texas for the first time since 1976; polls between Biden and Trump were often close, and a few actually had Biden narrowly ahead,\u201d the <em>2024 Almanac of American Politics<\/em> noted. \u201cUltimately, Trump won the state again, but his margin shrank from nine points in 2016 to about five-and-a-half points in 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democratic growth in the Texas presidential vote reflected the party\u2019s suburban gain nationwide, with swaths of professional-class workers repelled by Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition to holding increasingly diverse Fort Bend County near Houston, which [2016 Democratic nominee Hillary] Clinton had flipped in 2016, Biden achieved some flips of his own by making doubt-digit gains in Tarrant County (Fort Worth) and Williamson and Hays counties in the Austin suburbs,\u201d added the <em><em>Almanac of American Politics<\/em><\/em>. \u201cBiden also narrowed Trump\u2019s winning margin to single digits in Denton and Collin counties near Dallas-Fort Worth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden has been to Texas three times in 2024. That\u2019s the same as California, the blue giant. But also, North Carolina Democrats have for years tried to turn into a genuine swing state.<\/p>\n<p>But Democratic victory in Texas this year is wishful thinking, said Matt Mackowiak, a GOP consultant based in the state capital of Austin and chairman of the Travis County Republican Party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t see any evidence of it whatsoever,\u201d Mackowiak said in an interview. \u201cThe problem with Texas is it involves a massive investment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Texas has 20 media markets, Mackowiak added, ranging from smallish ones such as Beaumont-Port Arthur in the state\u2019s far-eastern end to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shapiro-for-the-left-bigotry-is-a-tool\/\" title=\"SHAPIRO: For The Left, Bigotry Is A Tool\">major metropolitan areas<\/a> of Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou could burn through $10 million quickly, just on TV ads,\u201d Mackowiak said, adding that Democratic money would be better spent in real battleground states. \u201cI\u2019d be absolutely shocked if Democrats invest anything seriously here in the presidential race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One variable, though, is the Senate race. Cruz, first elected in 2012, faces Rep. Colin Allred (D-TX), who represents the northern Dallas 32nd Congressional District.<\/p>\n<p>Allred is a former NFL linebacker who became a civil rights attorney and then beat an incumbent Republican House member in 2018. Cruz in 2018 won a closer-than-usual Senate reelection race over then-Rep. Beto O\u2019Rourke, a Democrat from El Paso. In theory, strong voter turnout for Allred could boost Biden at the top of the ticket.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Cruz campaign is clearly conscious of the senator\u2019s close call last time around, and is in the midst of attempting something of a brand pivot from disruptive bomb thrower to prudent bipartisan lawmaker,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/texaspolitics.utexas.edu\/blog\/early-soundings-2024-presidential-election-texas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Jim Henson<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/texaspolitics.utexas.edu\/blog\/early-soundings-2024-presidential-election-texas\">  and Joshua Blank<\/a>, who lead the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas, Austin, wrote in May.<\/p>\n<h2>Trump\u2019s Minnesota not-so-nice approach<\/h2>\n<p>While Democrats are careful about openly talking up their chances in Texas, Republicans generally happily discuss efforts to win their top \u201creach\u201d state, Minnesota.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump arrives to speak at the Minnesota Republican Lincoln Reagan Dinner Friday, May 17, 2024, at the Saint Paul RiverCentre in St. Paul, Minn. (AP Photo\/Abbie Parr)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Minnesota hasn\u2019t voted for a Republican presidential candidate since Richard Nixon in 1972. Biden beat Trump in Minnesota by more than 7 percentage points in 2020. Yet in 2016, Trump came within 1.5 points of beating Hillary Clinton in the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump\u2019s narrow loss in Minnesota 2016 seemed to pose an existential threat for the DFL, as a half-dozen predominantly rural counties shifted their margins toward the GOP by between 20 and 36 percentage points,\u201d the <em><em>Almanac of American Politics<\/em><\/em>  noted. \u201cBut the DFL\u2019s salvation was its continued edge in the Twin Cities region, which offered Minnesota more Democratic-leaning urban and suburban voters than neighboring states such as Iowa or Wisconsin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whether Trump\u2019s pugilistic style will sell statewide in Minnesota this year is an open question. \u201cMinnesota Nice\u201d is, after all, more cliche than reality, at least in political campaigns. The Gopher State has seen plenty of rough-and-tumble election fights, at least in the earlier part of this century when it was a genuine two-party state rather than leaning Democratic, as it does now.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is taking a hard look at Minnesota for 2024, or so he says. On May 17, Trump used a day off from his Manhattan hush money trial, which ended in criminal convictions for him on 34 counts, to headline a Republican fundraiser in Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>Per the <em>Associated Press<\/em>, \u201cTrump boasted that the steep tariffs he imposed on foreign steel while serving as president bought the Iron Range, the iron mining area of northeastern Minnesota, \u2018roaring back to life.\u2019 The area, with a heavy population of blue-collar workers and union workers, used to be solidly Democratic, but the region has been trending Republican in recent elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/go.politicoemail.com\/?qs=147b446f5c0ac4671357f67c09c2ec0bfb23d1d6c05712409e4c9a7f48e1ae6a4a2484f1c271de9724557add652f2c0e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Star Tribune<\/em>\/MPR News\/KARE 11 Minnesota poll<\/a> released on June 10 found Biden narrowly leading Trump, 45% to 41%, in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, while independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pulled in 6%.<\/p>\n<p>University of Minnesota political science professor Larry Jacobs said Trump could be competitive against Biden in Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s quite possible. After all, 2016 was a close race,\u201d Jacobs said in an interview. \u201cAnd 2020 was an incumbent and on the defensive. Now in 2024, Biden is on the defensive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMinnesota is a polka-dotted state,\u201d added Jacobs, also director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance. \u201cThere are parts of the state that are extremely conservative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adding to Biden\u2019s campaign headaches, the Minnesota DFL is, like the national Democratic Party, divided over Israel\u2019s defensive war against Hamas in Gaza in response to the Oct. 7 attacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWill the DFL base turn out?\u201d he asked. \u201cWe\u2019re seeing some of the same patterns \u2014 the turnoff of youth. Minnesota has one of the highest proportions of \u2018uncommitted\u2019 vote during the Democratic presidential primary,\u201d with many opting for that rather than vote for Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Young people, Jacobs added, are \u201cbeyond furious with Biden with what\u2019s going on in Gaza.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If Minnesota starts to look seriously like it could tilt toward Trump, that\u2019s got to be worrisome for the Biden campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoes Biden have to divert resources from states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin to make sure they\u2019ve got Minnesota nailed down? That would be a big sign of trouble,\u201d Jacobs said.<\/p>\n<p>Republican state Rep. Nolan West said in an interview it\u2019s unclear how much of a shot Trump would have in his top \u201creach state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a light-blue state, for sure. Still, Republicans have won here many times,\u201d said West, whose constituency covers the northern Twin Cities metropolitan area. \u201cI, for one, am very excited to hear we\u2019re going to get national attention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By the time presidential votes are tallied in Minnesota \u2014 and Texas and everywhere else in the nation \u2014 this year\u2019s World Series will have recently concluded. Whether teams leading their rivals make it that far, let alone win, is very much an open question. They\u2019re still more likely to come out on top than either Biden or Trump in their reach states.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s not impossible. As sports fans often say about lopsided matchups, \u201cThat\u2019s why they play the game.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON \u2014 Two long-standing MLB teams without World Series titles top their divisions. The Seattle Mariners lead the American League West, while the Milwaukee Brewers dominate the National League Central. 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