Dan O'Donnell
@DanODonnellShow
Trump's rally schedule over the final few days reveals a brilliant strategy: He is not going to North Carolina, Georgia, and Pennsylvania because he's worried about any of them. It's quite the opposite.

Winning those three states gets him to 270 electoral votes exactly and renders the rest of the swing states moot. Those three states are also in the Eastern time zone, which means they will likely report results the earliest.

Trump's goal is to run up the score as much as possible in those states so that the networks have no choice but to call them, and thus the election, for him relatively early on election night.

This is brilliant because it precludes the swing states from dragging out vote counting for days or even weeks (as has been suggested by multiple Democrats over the past month). If counts continue, fraudulent or questionable ballots can continue to flow in long after Election Day and could even tip a close state or two.
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Massive wins in North Carolina, Georgia, and Pennsylvania make this impossible. Hence, the intense focus on them in the final days.