His trip to Pennsylvania this week was not unusual.
President Trump campaigned in Pennsylvania on Monday, rallying supporters in the city of Montoursville some 18 months before he’s actually on the ballot.
Not that this was a surprising development, of course. During the 28 months that he’s been in office, Trump has held scores of political rallies, most centered on his own reelection. He’s visited Pennsylvania itself — a state he narrowly won three years ago — on 12 different days during his time in office, usually for political events.
Trump has a thing for red states. Of the 30 states that he won in 2016, Trump has visited 25. Of the 20 he lost, he’s only visited 11.
Many of the states he’s visited he’s only gone to once or twice. But there are a few states that he’s gone to over and over and over again. To capture that, we looked not only at how often Trump’s visited each state but also the number of full or partial days on which he visited the state. It looks like this.
Here the outliers are obvious: Florida, New Jersey and Virginia.
