Trump faces 'shrinking map' as campaign is 'nowhere to be seen' in New Hampshire: report

Former President Donald Trump has been publicly denying that he is losing the state of New Hampshire but a new report from Politico makes the case that his campaign is "almost nowhere to be seen" in the Granite State.

In fact, Trump New Hampshire campaign co-chair Lou Gargiulo even told Politico that the campaign should put all its resources into seven key swing states in the Midwest and the South that do not include New Hampshire.

"This election is going to be won in those seven swing states," he said. "That’s where the effort’s got to be put.”

Politico notes that Trump's grim prognosis in New Hampshire is symbolic of the "shrinking map" he's been dealing with ever since President Joe Biden dropped out of the race and Vice President Kamala Harris stepped into the breach.

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"A trio of surveys have shown the vice president opening an outside-the-margin-of-error lead over Trump — one that she aimed to cement on Wednesday with a campaign event at a brewery on New Hampshire’s Seacoast where she touted her new plan for small business tax breaks," writes Politico. "Race raters have shifted the state to the left. And Republicans here are privately bemoaning the Trump campaign’s lack of investment in this state where Democrats outnumber Republicans in field offices by 17 to 1."

Fergus Cullen, a former New Hampshire GOP chairman, told Politico that if there's any effort being made by Trump to win New Hampshire, he's not seeing it.

“I’m not seeing any organized effort on Trump’s behalf, whatsoever,” he said. “I’m not getting any phone calls automated or otherwise. I’m not seeing a county headquarters.”