Donald Trump's Upcoming Visit to Washington is a Waste of Time. Here's Why.

GOP presidential nominee will be in Everett on Tuesday.

After canceling a trip to Oregon earlier this month, Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump announced on Friday he's going to visit Western Washington on Tuesday, Aug. 30.

Related: Oregon GOP funders run away from Trump.

History, polling and the state of his relationships with Washington state's two highest profile billionaires suggest there's not much point.

  • Washington voters have supported the Democratic presidential candidate in every election since 1984 and they are trending ever bluer. In 2012, for instance incumbent President Barack Obama got 56.2 percent of the vote in Washington—that’s two percentage points better than Obama did in Oregon (which also hasn’t supported a Republican since 1984).
  • The most recent poll in Washington, released Aug. 15, showed Trump trailing Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton 43 percent to 24 percent.
  • Although there’s a lot of wealth up north, Washington’s two most prominent billionaires, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, don’t seem to like Trump much, so fundraising there could be challenge. Although neither billionaire has explicitly endorsed Clinton, Politico reported earlier this year that Gates seems more comfortable with her. Trump has attacked Bezos, who also owns the Washington Post, on Twitter and in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity.

OPB reported that Trump plans to hold a rally Tuesday at the 10,000-seat Xfinity arena in Everett.

Trump's desire to focus on states he's highly unlikely to win reportedly dismayed GOP political strategist Karl Rove, who according to a New York Times report earlier this month, met with Trump in May in an effort to help the candidate right his struggling campaign. The Times' description of the meeting touched on the futility of chasing votes in the Pacific Northwest.

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