Republican nominee Donald Trump Donald John TrumpOmar fires back at Trump over rally remarks: 'This is my country' Pelosi: Trump hurrying to fill SCOTUS seat so he can repeal ObamaCare Trump mocks Biden appearance, mask use ahead of first debate MORE’s presidential campaign is “pulling out” of Virginia in a move that suggests the business mogul’s operation believes that the battleground state may be out of reach, according to NBC News.

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The network reported that Trump’s campaign headquarters announced the move in a conference call with staff late Wednesday.

One source told NBC that the Republican is now "running essentially a four state campaign," focusing on Pennsylvania, Florida, North Carolina and Ohio — states in which Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonButtigieg stands in as Pence for Harris's debate practice Senate GOP sees early Supreme Court vote as political booster shot Poll: 51 percent of voters want to abolish the electoral college MORE currently averages single-digit leads.

RealClearPolitics shows Clinton with a 7.5-point lead in Virginia.

The move to pull out of the Old Dominion State comes days after the campaign fired its state director, Corey Stewart. Stewart staged a protest earlier this week at the Republican National Committee headquarters over party leaders distancing themselves from Trump.

Stewart told NBC that he thought pulling out of Virginia was a mistake.

"I think it's totally premature for the campaign to be pulling out of Virginia after so much work and all the ... thousands and thousands of volunteers," he said.

"The only thing the campaign had to do was spend money on an ad campaign and it would have been competitive. ... I'm just disgusted."

Another unidentified source told NBC that the move wasn’t definite.

"There have been conversations about shifting resources," the source said, "but I haven't gotten any definitive answer on anything."