Donald Trump raised a few eyebrows when he scheduled campaign events Monday and Tuesday during the final week before the election in Michigan and Wisconsin, two so-called “battleground” states where polling unequivocally favors his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton.

“Surely he would be better off camping out in places where the polls are closer, such as Florida, Nevada, North Carolina, and Ohio — that’s what many Republican strategists believe,” wrote the New Yorker’s John Cassidy, who suggested Trump’s appeal to non-college educated white voters in Michigan and Wisconsin, where they take up a large portion of the electorate, has just not been effective.