Lenar Whitney, Louisiana Republican vice chairman, says Trump is getting more than 50 percent in Louisiana and predicts that nationally he’ll get “50, 50-plus.”
Former Republican National Chairman Mike Duncan predicts Trump will get 53 percent, which happens to be the same percentage Barack Obama won over the nominee that emerged from the 2008 national convention over which Duncan presided. “Trump voters want change more than Hillary voters want her,” he explained.
Luke Bernstein, former executive director of the Pennsylvania Republican Party, predicts that Trump will get 48 or 49 percent “and we win.” He thinks Trump’s prospects in Pennsylvania are good: “We win Luzerne County [Wilkes-Barre, anthracite country] and carry northeast Pennsylvania,” he said, and sweep western Pennsylvania post-industrial counties like Cambria (Johnstown).
“We have a chance to be very close in Allegheny County [Pittsburgh and close-in suburbs],” which Obama carried 57-42 percent over Mitt Romney. The only other counties in western Pennsylvania were Erie in the far northwest and Centre, which includes the Penn State University campus.
