Donald Trump’s political director, Jim Murphy, told a small group of House members Wednesday that the campaign is targeting a broad collection of 17 states in the general election, according to people at the meeting.
Mr. Murphy said Mr. Trump would focus on
Arizona, Colorado, Florida,
Georgia,
Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota,
Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire,
North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.
Mr. Trump appears to be retreating from his pledge to compete in two other larger and more expensive Democratic leaning states, New York and California.
The campaign is not ruling those states out but they are not top targets, according to people at the meeting. John McLaughlin, a pollster Mr. Trump hired to evaluate his prospects in New York, could not be immediately reached on Wednesday.
Mr. Trump’s list includes about half a dozen more states than Republican Mitt Romney focused on in the 2012 election. Yet Mr. Trump is lagging in fundraising; he reported collecting $20 million for his campaign in June, half as much Democrat Hillary Clinton.
Karen Giorno, a Trump senior adviser who is also overseeing efforts in Florida, the nation’s largest swing state, said Mr. Trump can afford to compete in a wide swath of the country because he is running a leaner and more dynamic campaign.
“We have a movement,’’ she said. “We already have a built-in army of supporters.”
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