Trump Gambles With Late-Stage Trips to Solidly Dem New Mexico, Va.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Trump retains fervent pockets of support even in states that vote overwhelmingly against him, and he can easily fill his rallies with enthusiastic supporters.
53% : "The planned visit to Albuquerque brings Trump and his immigration stance to a border state with the nation's highest concentration of Latino voters, highlighting the campaign for Hispanic supporters.
50% : Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. remains on the ballot in New Mexico, and roadside campaign signs for Kennedy popped up across the capital city of Santa Fe in late October, about two months after Kennedy's withdrawal from the race and endorsement of Trump.
49% : Trump said in Albuquerque that he could win the state as long as the election is fair, repeating his historic claims about rigged past elections.
48% : "If we could bring God down from heaven, he could be the vote counter and we could win this," Trump said.
46% : Those events satisfied Trump's long-shot claims that he can win both states, but were also aimed at earning maximum media attention as his campaign seeks to reach voters who do not follow political news closely.Trump also showed up in staunchly Republican Montana, and both Trump and Harris campaigned on the same day last week in Texas, which Democrats last won in 1976.
45% : "He just brings us back to what the U.S. needs to be," Leandra Dominguez of Albuquerque, 45, said before Trump spoke.
41% : Arizona is now a battleground, but it wasn't considered particularly competitive eight years ago, when it voted for Trump by a 4-percentage point margin.
41% : "We have a real chance," Trump said while phoning into a Richmond-area rally on Saturday.
35% : New Mexico voters have twice rebuffed Trump at the polls, and Democrats hold every statewide elected position, all three congressional seats and majorities in the state House and Senate.
23% : Trump, while in Virginia, is likely to speak about Wednesday's Supreme Court ruling leaving in place a purge of voter registrations that the state says is aimed at stopping people who are not U.S. citizens from voting.
10% : After losing to Trump in 2016, Democrat Hillary Clinton was criticized for going to Arizona late in the campaign instead of spending time in Wisconsin, Michigan or Pennsylvania, states that ended up deciding that election.
8% : Trump lost the state to Clinton in 2016 and Democrat Joe Biden in 2020.

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