"Small-scale terror plots" play a key role in Donald Trump's strategy for winning the presidency, Politico reports. Among other things, pollsters and Trump's campaign and former advisers tell Politico that one piece of Trump's strategy includes tapping into voters' anxieties and fears about terror plots in the U.S.:
After winning the nomination on the first ballot, Trump unifies the party he has fractured behind him and reinvents himself as a pragmatic businessman and family man at the Republican National Convention. News of small-scale terror plots on American soil, foiled or successful, keep voters in a state of anxiety. Trump minimizes his losses with Hispanics by running Spanish-language ads highlighting his support for a strong military and take-charge entrepreneurial attitude, especially in the Miami and Orlando media markets.[Politico]
His campaign contends if he does all of that, as well as wins the states then-Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney won in 2012 and drives high voter turnout among the white working-class, victory will be Trump's.
Read the full story over at Politico.
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