President Donald Trump is setting his sights on flipping New Mexico from blue to red, according to a spokeswoman from the Republican National Committee.
"We know we've got a lot of supporters down there," the RNC's Cassie Smedile told Hill.TV before Trump's rally in the Western state Monday night. She also pointed out President Trump does not go anywhere unless he has "data informing that decision" and he thinks he has a real chance in swinging the Democratic-led state his way.
Politico reports Trump hopes to attract the state's Latino voters, beginning with his Monday campaign rally in Rio Rancho, a suburb of Albuquerque. The city is in a county Trump lost by 1,800 votes in the 2016 election. It sits four hours north of El Paso, the site of Trump's reelection rally in August that led campaign manager Brad Parscale to declare New Mexico as a "watch list" state.
Monday's rally will be Trump's first campaign stop in New Mexico since he won the 2016 presidential election.
New Mexico has voted Democratic in six of the past seven presidential elections and has the highest Latino population in the United States.
The president lost New Mexico to Hillary Clinton by about 8 percentage points. The state's governor and congressional delegation are also all Democrats.
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