Donald Trump personally blitzed battleground states Hillary Clinton neglected on way to huge win

Data from Donald Trump’s huge election win last week indicates that his Democratic opponent took for granted important battleground states that the billionaire personally blitzed.

Analysis of president-elect Trump’s travel schedule in the lead-up to his Nov. 8 win shows a man who zigzagged across crucial states while Hillary Clinton dispatched surrogates instead. NBC News estimated over the weekend that Mr. Trump visited key states roughly 50 percent more of the time than Mrs. Clinton in the last 100 days of the race.

Statistics show the following:

• Mr. Trump made a total of 133 visits to Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
• Mrs. Clinton touched down in the first five of those states a total of 87 times.
• Mrs. Clinton failed to visit Wisconsin during the 102 days between her party’s convention and the election. (The billionaire won the state by 1 percentage point.)
• Mr. Trump out-campaigned Clinton by 30 percent in Florida, which translated into a win of 1.3 percentage points.
• Mr. Trump made 23 percent more personal visits to Pennsylvania than Mrs. Clinton. He won the traditionally “blue” state by 1.2 points.

“When you win, every decision you made is suddenly brilliant, and when you lose, every decision is described as wrong headed,” Republican strategist Nicolle Wallace told NBC News on Saturday. “That said, being in those states helped Trump cut through the largely negative media drumbeat and communicate directly with voters. When the margin is this close you have to assume that everything you did over the course of a campaign mattered.”

Mrs. Clinton’s campaign has taken to blaming FBI Director James Comey for his decision to renew an investigation into her secret email server just 12 days before the Nov. 8 election. Mr. Comey then notified Congress two days before voters headed to the polls that he would close the case for the second time since July.

“Our analysis is that Comey’s letter raising doubts that were groundless, baseless, proven to be, stopped our momentum,” Mrs. Clinton said in a weekend call with donors, sources within the network said.

Mr. Trump defied pundits and pollsters who had written him off in the days leading up the election by winning 290 electoral college votes to the former secretary of state’s 232.