Barbara Kinney for Hillary For America(WASHINGTON) — Hillary Clinton is hitting three important states in the final lap of her presidential campaign, but her team seems confident that her road to the required 270 electoral votes is secure.
Clinton is headed to Pennsylvania, Michigan, back to Pennsylvania and finishing up Monday in North Carolina. She spent time in Ohio this weekend with some all-star supporters such as Beyonce, Jay Z and LeBron James.
Of all the competitive states on this year’s map, only Florida needs to go into Clinton’s column for her to win the race. If she loses Florida, but wins Nevada and Michigan on top of Pennsylvania, which Democrats won in 2012, then she still triumphs.
Ohio, New Hampshire, Iowa and North Carolina — and to a lesser extent Arizona and Georgia — are all close as well and could add to her lead or help bolster Trump. But even if Clinton’s rival Donald Trump were to win all six of these states, he would also have to clinch some combination of Florida, Pennsylvania and Michigan to have a path to 270 electoral votes.
Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook does not seem worried about Trump’s latest plays in Michigan and other typically Democratic states like Minnesota and Wisconsin.
“I think he needed to get those into play much earlier. I’m not concerned that he’s spending so much time there at the end because he didn’t build a ground game. Just this weekend, our team knocked on 7.2 million doors, made 8.1 million phine calls,” Mook told ABC’s Good Morning America Monday.
“I don’t think Donald Trump dashing around to these states at the last hour is going to do what’s needed to get his supporters out,” he said.
One of the keys to Mook’s confidence? Early voting numbers.
“We saw just eye-popping turnout in Florida over the last two days, particularly in our strongholds of southern Florida, North Carolina and elsewhere, so we’re very encouraged, very positive,” Mook said.
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