Trump team forced to scramble and change strategy focusing on six states in wake of falling polls

Former President Donald Trump is set to focus his campaigning on the blue wall states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan as his campaign scrambles to change strategy after falling poll numbers.

Trump is backing away from three states that were a part of his target list as recently as six weeks ago, according to Axios. The former president will now campaign less in New Hampshire, Minnesota, and Virginia.

Minnesota last voted for a Republican in the presidential race in 1972, when they backed Richard Nixon. New Hampshire most recently backed a Republican when they voted for George W Bush in the 2000 election and Virginia has been Democratic in presidential elections since 2004.

The change in strategy reveals how the race has shifted since the entrance of Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic standard-bearer.

The Trump campaign is also set to try to regain his polling leads in North Carolina, Arizona, and Nevada, which became competitive following Harris’s entrance into the race.

Earlier this summer, in late July, Trump was coming out of the Republican National Convention in Wisconsin with momentum looking like he would win the election.

His campaign held rallies in Virginia, Minnesota, and New Jersey, a state most recently won by a Republican in 1988. In memos, campaign staff wrote that both Minnesota and Virginia were “in play.”

After Biden’s departure and endorsement of Harris on July 21, things appear to have changed.

Trump is now scaling back his operations in New Hampshire, where a volunteer emailed others that the campaign “has determined that New Hampshire is no longer a battleground state,” according to The Boston Globe.

The email stated that the campaign should focus its efforts on