Thursday night Fox host Laura Ingraham had some cogent things to say about the presidential race, “If Trump carries Florida, North Carolina and Arizona, along with the other states he is already expected to win, he’ll have more than 250 electoral votes,” Ingraham said. “At that point, the only way for Democrats to win would be to sweep Pennsylvania and the Midwest with mail-in ballots…After being the punch line for liberal elites for years and years, the Midwest finally has its moment in 2020. If you’re from Wisconsin and you’re an independent but Trump’s tweets bug you, OK, I get it. But focus on what matters: Your family, their future, your and their safety, and prosperity.”

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Referring to the economic and public safety disaster that is Chicago, Ingraham said, “That’s the Democrats ideal Midwest city: Chicago. High taxes, pro-pot, anti-gun, anti-business.”

But in 2016 voters can reject the Democrat track record for Trump, who “really is just all about returning power to people, the American people, and that means respecting your freedom to live your life, raise her family, and yes, pursue your happiness…Chicago-style Democrats, they are not up at night worrying about any of that. After all, why would they? Their supporters think that you are a bunch of racists who are destroying the planet. So more freedom for you means less control for them. They don’t like that at all.”

As usual, Ingraham nails it. A survey of the president’s chances in the Midwest gives grounds for optimism. In Pennsylvania, kind of in and out of the Midwest category, the white middle class, especially in the Western part of the state, should make him top dog. Ohio is a lock. Iowa looks good and Minnesota is up for grabs. In fact, in 2016 Trump spent $50,000 in Minnesota and lost by 44,000 votes. This year the Trump campaign is spending millions there.

The real battlefields, states that went a long way to giving Trump his win in 2016, are Michigan and Wisconsin. The president has spent over three years keeping their electoral votes in mind and many of his policies reflect that priority.

In Michigan his trade policies have played very well and brought jobs back to the state. In Wisconsin, racked by riots in Kenosha, the president’s message of law and order will strike a chord and every riot from now until election day will buttress the Trump theme.

Both states are by no means a lock as of yet. The Democrats and their hard leftist pals will fight hard for their former bastions. But the Democrats abandoned the working class both economically and culturally decades ago. Hence the 2016 shift in this region to the Republicans. Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan finally woke up and went GOP in a presidential election. The rest of the sane parts of the country may follow their lead.