The 2020 re-election campaign for President Trump knows it has a lot of work cut out to get the president back into the Oval Office. The electoral map looks to be more challenging than it was in 2016 with states like Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania likely to be close-calls that could possibly flip back to the Democratic nominee.
Then, there's the matter of the Democratic field. It's currently log-jammed, but the high volume of candidates has made it more difficult for the Trump campaign to focus on beating specific contenders.
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