Trump axes volunteer who mentioned marketing campaign ‘no longer thinks New Hampshire is winnable’ in leaked memo | EUROtoday

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The Trump crew has axed a volunteer who claimed in a leaked e-mail that the Republican presidential candidate’s marketing campaign not sees New Hampshire as a winnable swing state.

Tom Mountain, who has held varied roles within the Massachusetts GOP, wrote in an e-mail to volunteers that the Trump marketing campaign “no longer thinks New Hampshire is winnable” and is “pulling back” from the swing state, The Boston Globe reported.

Democratic candidate Kamala Harris has an virtually seven-point lead over Trump within the battleground state, 50.3 p.c to 43.2 p.c, in line with the most recent FiveThirtyEight ballot. New Hampshire hasn’t been gained by a Republican since former president George W Bush in 2000.

The message urged readers to focus their attentions on Pennsylvania as a substitute, since Trump was “sure to lose by an even higher margin” in New Hampshire than he did in 2016 and 2020.

“So for those who were active in the NH ground campaign in 2016 and 2020, and expected to do the same after Labor Day, the simple question is… what are we to do? GO TO PENNSYLVANIA,” Mountain wrote.

Following the e-mail, Trump marketing campaign senior adviser Brian Hughes wrote in an announcement to Mediaite on Monday that Mountain would “no longer have any involvement” with the marketing campaign owing to his “ridiculous misrepresentation of our ongoing operation in New Hampshire.”

“This isn’t true,” Hughes wrote. “President Trump’s campaign maintains an on-the-ground presence in New Hampshire, including staff and offices, while Kamala Harris is parachuting in because she knows that the Granite State is in play. We look forward to building on the momentum that we have grown since the primary and sending New Hampshire’s four electoral votes to President Trump’s column on November 5.”

The adviser added that studies about Mountain as a key official had been a “massive overstatement of his involvement.”

The Independent has contacted Mountain for remark.