Donald Trump has no chance of winning these blue states but he’s campaigning there anyway

Colorado and California are both reliablyDemocrat-voting states but that’s not stopping Donald Trump from holding campaign rallies in both states this week.

The former president announced he will visit Aurora, Colorado on Friday despite polling 11 points behind Vice President Kamala Harris in the state. Then he will rally in Coachella, California on Saturday even though he has virtually no chance of winning California.

The choice to campaign in two states that have, historically, elected Democratic leadership and voted for the Democratic presidential candidates is eyebrow-raising. But the strategy may motivate Republican or right-leaning voters to cast their ballots even though they don’t live in battleground states.

Trump’s campaign said his Aurora rally will focus on immigration, specifically what they claim is an influx of “violent Venezuelan prison gang members” who have turned the city into a “war zone.”

During rallies, the former president often uses Aurora as an example of a city overrun with violent migrants. Much like his eating pets claim in Springfield, Ohio, Trump’s claim of gang members «taking over the whole town” is based on aviral incident that was blown out of proportion.

Both the Democratic Governor of Colorado and the Republican Mayor of Aurora have said Trump has greatly exaggerated and misrepresented what is actually occurring.

While several Tren de Aragua gang members were involved in isolated criminal incidents, including at two apartment complexes subject to the accusations, police have identified at least 10 gang members and arrested eight.

Residents of the apartment buildingstold The Denverite that they were receiving death threats from “would-be-vigilantes” not Venezuelan gang members.

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