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Can Trump ‘Defy History’? Inside the President’s ‘Midterm Blitz’

Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell

President Donald Trump has ramped up his midterm tour around the country, visiting a new state almost every day. 

The goal, according to several GOP strategists, is to mobilize low-propensity Republican voters to show up at the polls. Trump primarily has visited states that he won by a large margin in 2024 but where Republican candidates are now facing competitive races.

“Our goal is to go around there and have a united team, and to get people out there motivated to go vote, and that’s the primary job of the party,” said Republican National Committee Chairman Joe Gruters. “He’s delivered these low-propensity voters three different times. That’s why he keeps on saying, ‘I’m going to be on the ballot,’ because he is.”

Trump kicked off his 32-day midterm campaign blitz in Texas and Oklahoma on Oct. 1. He has since traveled to Mobile, Alabama; Vandalia, Ohio; Grand Island, Nebraska; Baltimore, Maryland; and San Antonio, Texas. He has scheduled trips to Syracuse, New York on Friday and Clarksville, Tennessee on Saturday. 

Gruters said Trump will later visit Arizona and Florida. He pushed back on the idea that the president’s blitz is focused on traditionally red areas with tight races. 

“We’re going to Arizona,” he said. “We’re going everywhere. We’re going to competitive states. We’re........

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