Could Trump put Connecticut and Rhode Island in play in November?

[Suburbia]

They are both Acela Northeastern states. It's Donald Trump's style. Could he put Connecticut and Rhode Island in play this November?

[NHI]

CT more than RI

[ProudModerate2]

Nooooo.
Come-on, stop it.

[Badger]

Of course not. Don't be silly.

[Vosem]

No, though I also think this is a part of the country where _trump does no worse, and perhaps even marginally better, than Generic R. But the holes here are too deep to overcome.

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

You'd have to be delusional to think Trump could even come CLOSE to winning them

[libertpaulian]

There aren't enough Peter Griffins in RI for him to even have a prayer.

[Illiniwek]

Garbage poll.

[Virginiá]

Winning a primary in a state doesn't say anything about its general election prospects. So few people participate in primaries compared to general elections, so what you are seeing is not really representative of the state at all.

Neither will be competitive in November. Nor will New York.

[Orser67]

States are more than D+5 really aren't worth thinking about. If they're in play, then Republicans have probably easily won the election.

[Xing]

Yes, just like TN and AR are winnable for Hillary, since they're such great fits for her. LOL, get real.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

This is like saying that Jesse Jackson could have won Mississippi and Louisiana in the general cause he got them in the primary.

[wolfsblood07]

If Reagan won them, maybe Trump can too.  Trump could win in a landslide, or lose in one.  No one can predict this one.

[publicunofficial]

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[HAnnA MArin County]

I think he'd better concentrate on keeping the Crimson firewall in Utah intact before he even toys with the notion of competing in sapphire blue Rhode Island and Connecticut.

[The Other Castro]

-11/10 classic bronz thread.

[Higgs]

Connecticut State will be the bellwether.

[MK]

Unless the FBI shows up during a Hillary rally right before the election and handcuff her on the spot.  Thats prob the only way Trump wins those states and by then he will have already won 270 EV.

[IceSpear]

Yes, and Hillary will put Alabama and Mississippi into play.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Junk poll.

[HAnnA MArin County]

I've always felt that RI should be a lot more R than it is.  This isn't the year, though.  And Clinton is a perfect fit for CT in a general against Trump.

Why? New England whites are not the same as Alabama whites and New England Catholics are not as pro-life as "pro-lifers" elsewhere. Scituate appears to be the only solidly Republican town there and it's still not that Republican as you would find in other predominantly white small towns.

[Wisconsin+17]

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Say Trump gets 81 percent of the white vote without a degree, that results in a 390-148 map.

That shifts WA, OR, NV, CO, MN, IA, WI, MI, OH, PA, FL, VA and IL.

That also flips Maine and New Hampshire.

Safely put it, Trump ain't winning CT or RI.

[HAnnA MArin County]

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Say Trump gets 81 percent of the white vote without a degree, that results in a 390-148 map.

That shifts WA, OR, NV, CO, MN, IA, WI, MI, OH, PA, FL, VA and IL.

That also flips Maine and New Hampshire.

Safely put it, Trump ain't winning CT or RI.

That scenario will never happen but yes, my point exactly: Connecticut and Rhode Island are too blue. I could see Massachusetts going red before Rhode Island. Rhode Island would probably be #3 on my list of bluest states, right after DC and Vermont, respectively.

[Wisconsin+17]

Now you see the powers of delusion that we conservatives are up against.

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

Northeasterners love a straight-shooter.  Donald Trump is the straightest shooter of them all.  I can only hope Hillary shoots straighter, or it's goodbye CT and RI for the Democrats and hello President Trump. 

Oh no!