Donald Trump traveled to the Democratic states of New Mexico and Virginia in the final days of his campaign, taking a risky detour from the seven hotly contested states to visit places where a Republican presidential candidate has not won in decades , reported the Associated Press, quoted by BTA.
The former American president held a campaign rally in the city of Albuquerque in the state of New Mexico on Thursday, and today he must visit the city of Salem in the state of Virginia.
Trump's campaign staff is optimistic, based in part on early voting data, that he can challenge Democratic nominee Kamala Harris in both states -- especially New Mexico -- if he wins the contested states of Nevada and Arizona.
That hope comes even though neither New Mexico nor the state of Virginia has seen a GOP candidate win the White House since Republican George W. Bush won in 2004.
Especially in the past few months, the contested states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have seen constant campaigning by both candidates, and their populations have been bombarded with political ads on billboards, TV channels and smartphones.
In the past two weeks alone, presidential and vice presidential candidates from both parties made 21 visits to Pennsylvania, 17 to Michigan, and 13 to North Carolina. In the remaining 43 states, a visit by either of the two presidential candidates was unusually rare, notes the Associated Press.