Exactly eight weeks before Election Day , Biden has strong opportunities to recapture states that President Donald Trump won in 2016 both in the Rust Belt and the Sun Belt. The electoral battlefield this year offers almost perfect symmetry between the Sun Belt and the Rust Belt. Over the past generation, Democrats have consistently run better in both presidential and congressional contests in the Rust Belt than the Sun Belt. So you put those things together and the Rust Belt still seems a little stronger." Most troubling for Trump is that Biden can reach an Electoral College majority even if he breaks through on only one of these fronts.

Source: CNN September 08, 2020 04:18 UTC