President Trump won a number of states in the upper Midwest in 2016 known as the “blue wall,” so-named for supporting Democratic presidential candidates for decades.
He won the states because he campaigned there, for one thing; his Democrat rival, Hillary Clinton, ignored almost all of them because she took for granted that she would win them outright.
By comparison, Trump not only campaigned in those states – Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Minnesota – but his message resonated with a majority of voters there.
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Can he win those ‘blue wall’ states again? One Republican House leader in one of those states – Michigan – believes he can.
“Democrats should be scared about Michigan,” state Rep. Lee Chatfield told “Fox & Friends Weekend” on Sunday, adding that “it went red in 2016” and “it will go red again” this year.
Chatfield made the comment reacting to Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s campaign announcing last week that the former vice president will be traveling to Michigan, a key battleground state, on Wednesday.
On Sunday, Chatfield pointed out that people in Michigan voted for Democrats in past elections, however the 2016 election went to President Trump.
“Michigan had not been won by a Republican on the presidential ballot since 1988,” Chatfield said, adding “there’s two main reasons for that: Number one, how radical and progressive the Democrat Left has been, but also Trump’s focus on an economic message.”
Truth. Trump breezed into the blue wall states with a pro-growth platform of jobs, better trade deals, and an America-first mentality – all pledges he has kept.
Co-host Will Cain asked, “Why in your estimation have Democrats not given Michigan the attention over the last couple of election cycles?”
“I just think Democrats have taken our state for granted,” he said in response, stressing that “Michigan went blue in presidential elections for 30 consecutive years.”
“So they [Democrats] are scared, they are a little frightened, but their problem is they have to find out how do they give Michigan voters and Michigan workers attention while also proving that they’re the party not run by AOC [New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] and the Progressive left,” Chatfield added.
“And when you look at the news and you look at what the Democrat base is focusing on right now, it’s not jobs, it’s not the economy, it’s not an American first policy that speaks to the heart of the Michigan worker.”
“So Michigan workers have to decide who is going to do best at restoring our economy and keeping jobs available? Is that Donald Trump or is that Joe Biden? They chose Donald Trump once and I think they’re going to choose him again,” he continued.
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“What Michigan workers care about is ensuring that they have a job so they can have money in their pockets, so they can put food on the table,” he noted further. “Trump focuses on the economic message. The Democrats, Joe Biden has a real tough time coming into Michigan and acting like he’s a moderate because we know simply he is a pawn of the radical Democrat left.”
“When you look at the policies that Trump has done his first term in office with the passage of the USMCA [United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement], that is good for Michigan workers, that’s good for Midwestern workers,” he said.
“Biden he is a reflection of what he passed in the Senate with the old NAFTA plan, which wasn’t good for America.”
“So we like the American first policy. We want to make sure we have money. We want to make sure we can send our kids to school. That is Trump’s focus. That’s his message and that’s why people are going to get out and vote for him,” Chatfield said.
