Team Trump believe they can flip Democrat strongholds of Virginia and Minnesota ... trends now
Behind closed doors, top strategists for Donald Trump's campaign told donors that they believe they can flip the Democratic strongholds Minnesota and Virginia red.
Trump's team presented their plan to the former president's financial backers at a Republican National Committee retreat on Saturday.
Availing themselves of internal surveys, pollster Tony Fabrizio - one of Trump's favorites - and senior advisers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles made their pitch to the donors.
According to two witnesses who were present at the meeting, which took place at the Four Seasons resort in Palm Beach, the presentation was centered around finances, messaging, and the political map.
Trump's top strategists told donors on Saturday that they believe the former president could eke out narrow victories in the Democratic strongholds of Minnesota and Virginia
Using internal polls, Trump's strategists demonstrated how tight the election is in the two states
The upshot of Fabrizio's polls showed Trump eking out narrow victories in critical swing states from 2020, including Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
But the politician's top strategists didn't stop there. They also discussed an ambitious plan to make further inroads into Democratic territory.
Trump's team argued that the former president could defeat Biden in the Democratic strongholds of Minnesota and Virginia.
Meanwhile, President Biden's strategists harbor similar hopes, aspiring to flip North Carolina, where Republicans have won for the past three presidential elections.
Biden's team also hopes to prevail in Florida, where Republicans have emerged victorious in the previous two presidential elections.
In 2020, Biden nabbed the presidency by a margin of 74 electoral votes. Wins in critical states like Wisconsin, Arizona, and Georgia helped propel him to victory.
'I think that the Biden campaign is deliberately playing a faux game by talking about [how] they're going to expand the map in Florida and North Carolina,' Trump adviser Chris LaCivita told NBC.
'But we have a real, real opportunity in expanding the map in Virginia and Minnesota.'
'We have a real, real opportunity in expanding the map in Virginia and Minnesota,' said Chris LaCivita (pictured0, a senior adviser for Trump
In a head-to-head matchup in Minnesota, Trump's team found that the former president would win
