Swing State Quotes

A [Presidential] candidate, confident of winning or sure of losing a bare majority of a state’s popular vote has no reason to expend resources there.

Imagine Texas as a blue state: how hard it would be to carry the presidency or gain control of the Senate.

Michigan will be Democratic in some years and Republican in some years. I don't think we'll ever make the mistake like we did in 2016 and not turn out again.

Ohio chose the president in 2000 and 2004. The independent voters, the so-called swing voters, are the ones who make the difference.

Trump won 44.4 percent of votes in Virginia in 2016. At press time, Ed Gillespie had won 45 percent of the vote in 2017.

The biggest challenge I have with Washingtonians is they think Illinois is exclusively a Democratic state.

Kentucky has long been Democratic at the state level but that trend had completely reversed in the Trump era.

In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore got more votes than George W. Bush, but still lost the election. The Supreme Court's ruling in Florida gave Bush that pivotal state, and doomed Gore to lose the Electoral College. That odd scenario - where the candidate with the most votes loses - has happened three times in U.S. history.

I refuse to do anything that would help Republicans win a Senate seat in New York, and give the Senate majority to the Republicans.

I'm proud that Colorado delivered a victory to Barack Obama in 2008 and we will do so again in 2012.

There's no question about the fact that for Democrats, Texas is a tough place.

The state of Michigan going to Trump was an amazing thing. Of course the fake news media was shocked; they never considered that white working class residents of Michigan may not like being called evil racists clinging to guns and Bibles.

I'm not saying that Paul Ryan would weep if Bernie Sanders won Texas but it's definitely possible.

As the country's third-largest state by population, Florida is the crown jewel in the Electoral College among swing states.

I fully appreciate the fact that George W. Bush won 49% of my district.

I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year.

When George Bush asked me to sign on, it obviously wasn't because he was worried about carrying Wyoming. We got 70 percent of the vote in Wyoming, although those three electoral votes turned out to be pretty important last time around.

You're losing in Ohio, but, don't worry, we're winning in Pennsylvania.

I've lived in New York state almost my entire life, so my votes never count.

One vote. That's a big weapon you have there, Mister. In 1948, just one additional vote in each precinct would have elected Dewey. In 1960, one vote in each precinct in Illinois would have elected Nixon. One vote.

Ted Cruz caught the momentum in Wisconsin that I think that Donald Trump thought was his and his alone.

I hear you're losing Ohio, but we're doing fine in Pennsylvania.

Maryland has a tradition of Democratic Party conservatism.

Texas is not really a red state - it's just a non-voting state.

I never voted for a Democrat at the state or national level.