In an interview with a New York City radio station, a top campaign aide to Donald Trump said today that the campaign will target two Blue States – Michigan and New Mexico – in the final 10 days of the presidential election.

Trump’s senior communications adviser, Jason Miller, said on WABC:

“Both in New Mexico and in Michigan we’re showing dead heats in those states. For all of the talk of Hillary Clinton supposedly going on offense with Red States, she’s campaigning in Blue States, and we’re making a play for Blue States.”

But Miller’s assertion contains a fair amount of the usual Trump style of bluster.

The Hill reports that polls in Michigan and New Mexico don’t show the candidates tied. Hillary Clinton leads Trump by 7 points in the RealClearPolitics polling average in Michigan and 8 points in the New Mexico average. In Michigan, three recent polls show Clinton with double-digit leads.

In addition, while the candidates make campaign hops from one swing state to the next, New Mexico is hardly a plum acquisition. The Land of Enchantment has just five electoral votes up for grabs, equal to Nebraska. Michigan has 16 votes in the Electoral College.

“We feel very good about where the tide is turning here, and we’re just going to stay on offense all the way through,” Miller said.

 

 

 

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