(CNN) President Donald Trump's 2020 campaign team is exploring their chances of expanding the electoral map into five states he lost in 2016, a move driven as much by necessity as by early aggressiveness. Trump lost all five in 2016 but only two -- New Hampshire and Nevada -- were considered swing states. In Minnesota, Trump lost to Hillary Clinton by 1.5 points -- and the state has been slowly trending Republicans' way of late. (Trump, unlike past presidents, began raising money for his re-election race shortly after first winning the White House in 2016.) What that sort of early fundraising means is that unlike his first race, in which he was heavily outspent by Clinton in almost every swing state, Trump will have the money to build top-tier organizations in every swing state and maybe even a few non-traditional swing states.

Source: CNN June 11, 2019 16:53 UTC