Donald Trump's ground game has been anemic from the get-go and now a side-by-side comparison from PBS NewsHour shows Hillary Clinton has up to three times as many paid staffers in more than a dozen key battleground states.
As of Aug. 30, Hillary Clinton has 291 offices in those 15 battlegrounds. Donald Trump has 88. (Those figures include joint presidential and party offices.) Both campaigns pledge that more offices are coming.
Trump's biggest concentration of offices are in Ohio (Trump 16/Clinton 36), Virginia (Trump 18/Clinton 29), and WI (Trump 22/Clinton 33).
But forget about his gaping deficit in Ohio: He’s got just one (yes, 1) office in Florida to Clinton's 34 offices. Here are a few other notable states:
Pennsylvania: Trump 2/Clinton 36
Colorado: Trump 8/Clinton 18
Iowa: Trump 9/Clinton 24
Michigan: Trump 0/Clinton 23
North Carolina: Trump 0/Clinton 30
Trump reportedly has big plans to open another 132 offices in the weeks to come. But what's the rush, right?
“Offices are bricks and mortar,” said Trump Florida strategist [Karen] Giorno. “That doesn’t make a campaign. What makes a campaign is the people. And we have an army of people we have not deployed yet.”