‘We’re thinking landslide’: Beyond D.C., GOP officials see Trump on glide path to reelection

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https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/15/trump-glide-reelection-republican-officials-316457

Interviews with more than 50 state, district and county Republican Party chairs depict a version of the electoral landscape that is no worse for Trump than six months ago — and possibly even slightly better. According to this view, the coronavirus is on its way out and the economy is coming back. Polls are unreliable, Joe Biden is too frail to last, and the media still doesn’t get it.

“The more bad things happen in the country, it just solidifies support for Trump,” said Phillip Stephens, GOP chairman in Robeson County, N.C., one of several rural counties in that swing state that shifted from supporting Barack Obama in 2012 to Trump in 2016. “We’re calling him ‘Teflon Trump.’ Nothing’s going to stick, because if anything, it’s getting more exciting than it was in 2016.”

Delusion sure is a hell of a drug.

Thoughts? Are these guys a bunch of clowns, or are they on to something that literally everyone else is missing?

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Come to think of it, why is Trump holding a rally in Oklahoma of all places? His polls are a disaster, but I doubt they're so bad he needs to campaign in red states. Incredible waste of time and resources to not be spending all this time and money in a swing state. This would be like Biden campaigning in Maryland.

My assumption is only deep red states are even willing to allow this sort of rally given the pandemic.

Even then, there are better options for that than Oklahoma? Here are some options in deep red states that would make for better rally locations; trying to also exclude doing a rally right at the state border (instead trying to do it in some border town that is not a completely rural area on the state line):

Omaha, Nebraska (for NE-02)
Cheyene, Wyoming (for Colorado)
Martinsburg, West Virginia (for Virginia)
Chattanooga, Tennessee (for Georgia)
Mobile, Alabama (for Florida)
Shreveport, Louisiana (for Texas)
South Bend, Indiana (for Michigan and Ohio)
Morgantown, West Virginia (for Pennsylvania)
Fargo, North Dakota / Sioux Falls, South Dakota (for Minnesota)
St. George, Utah (for Nevada and Arizona)

All of those would make for much better locations to make a rally in a deep red state than Tulsa

Isn't this speech the brainchild of Stephen Miller? If so, the rally location and the original date make perfect sense.