Since his inauguration, those swing states have — not entirely surprisingly — been among the most-mentioned by Trump. Over the past two years, Trump’s made more mentions of swing states and states he lost badly in 2016 than other states. So far this year, for example, he has mentioned both heavily Democratic states and swing states more than 2,000 times. ADADThe most Trump mentioned states in 2017 was in September, when hurricanes hit the heavily red Gulf Coast. His attention gradually shifted to swing states, in part because of the pandemic (“liberate Michigan”; waving away surges in infections in Arizona and Florida).

Source: Washington Post September 11, 2020 20:48 UTC