(CNN) The Democratic National Committee will begin to pour millions of dollars into six battleground states -- Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Florida, North Carolina and Arizona -- in preparation for a general election fight against President Donald Trump, the committee announced Wednesday.

The spending -- the first multi-million dollar installment in what the party is calling "The Battleground Build Up 2020" -- represents the initial wave in the DNC's election year battleground spending and signals the states that Democrats believe will be most competitive with Trump on the ballot in November

Trump won all of the states on the DNC's list, meaning the committee will not, for the time being, deploy money to potentially competitive blue states like New Hampshire, Minnesota and Nevada as part of the program. The list also doesn't include Ohio and Iowa, two states that supported Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, and then backed Trump in 2016.

The Democratic committee has funded operations in some of these states, namely Nevada, Ohio and Iowa, via other projects, a spokesman for the committee said. Additional states could be added to the program depending on what happens during the 2020 race, according to the spokesman.

"The DNC is making historic, early investments to lay the groundwork for our eventual nominee to win in 2020," DNC chairman Tom Perez told CNN. "We are taking nothing for granted as we work to make Trump a one-term president and win up and down the ballot in 2020."

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