Donald Trump is already eyeing general election swing states in anticipation of becoming the Republican nominee — and in an interview with Time, he says he is fully expecting to dismantle the Electoral College map. "I will win states where Republicans don't even go to campaign," Trump said, naming Michigan, Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio — and his blue-voting home state of New York:
Republican turnout in the primaries so far is shattering records, a trend that is likely to continue. And [Trump] puts some states in play in November that Democrats have long taken for granted. The conservative sage of one of Trump's favorite journals — the tabloid New York Post — captured his thinking in a recent column. "You know who Fred Dicker is, right?" he asks me. "Fred Dicker said I have a very good chance of winning New York, and that changes the whole ballgame. Those are my people. I know them, they know me." A generation has passed since Ronald Reagan won the Empire State, being the last Republican to do so. To put it back in contention would completely upend the Electoral College map that Democrats have painstakingly assembled over the past three decades. [Time]
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