A veteran campaign strategist who worked for Donald Trump's 2024 reelection bid told Fox News Digital that pundits are misreading the strategy behind the president's 32-state pre-midterms rally tour, which includes stops in deep red states.Thursday, the president spoke in Denton, Texas, a suburb of Dallas before traveling to Oklahoma, a longtime bastion of conservatism that hasn't been carried by a Democrat in a presidential election since Lyndon B.Johnson in 1964.
Trump on Friday will rally in Mobile, Alabama, another traditionally Republican-dominated state.While political analysts speculate Trump's blitz signals doom for the GOP in November, Luke Ball, who knows intimately the inner-workings of how the 47th president operates on the campaign trail, has a different view.CAN THE 'BEST SHOWMAN IN POLITICS' DELIVER AGAIN? GOP BETS ON TRUMP AT HISTORIC MIDTERM CONVENTIONPresident Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event in Durant, Oklahoma, on Thursday, Oct.1, 2026.
President Trump and Vice President Vance are expected to be on the campaign trail almost every day in October, as surveys show Republicans rapidly losing ground amid voter anger over the economy and the war in Iran.(Dylan Hollingsworth/Bloomberg via Getty Images)"So, for people who are maybe commenting and doing it from a perspective of 'the president's in trouble,' I think that it's kind of a lazy analysis for you to just take it at surface value that he's in red states," Ball said.He added that Texas and Oklahoma go "hand in hand," and that the appearing in both places can boost Republican midterm turnout in November across swing district or more competitive districts found in some deep red states.Though he admits the strategy is a "risk" for Trump, he says the month-long tour isn't a fly-by-night operation.GOP FACES BRUTAL MIDTERM HEADWINDS AS REPUBLICANS PAINT ELECTION AS ‘COMPETITION WITH COMMUNISM’"They keep saying — and it's a risk politically for the pres...