Reagan's New York strategy was genius. Trump is on track to make lightening strike again
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New York has changed over the years since Ronald Reagan won it in 1980 and again in 1984, but it is not a slam dunk for Biden. He will have to expend real resources to hold on to it.
Acclaimed historian Craig Shirley is the author of the New York Times bestseller "December 1941" and six highly touted bestsellers about Ronald Reagan, including "Rendezvous with Destiny," which was named one of the five best campaign books of all time by the Wall Street Journal. As the Visiting Reagan Scholar at Eureka College, he is on the Board of Governors of the Reagan Ranch and lectures frequently at the Reagan Library. Shirley also wrote "Mary Ball Washington," which won the People’s Choice Award from the Library of Virginia. He is now working on "The Search for Reagan" and an examination of the Donald Trump presidency.
When Reagan won New York in 1980, there was the third-party candidacy of John Anderson, the liberal Republican representative from Illinois. Post election, pollsters said he took proportionally from both Carter and Reagan. Liberals saw him as one of their own and some Republicans saw him as one of their own.