The president will be in Duluth, Minnesota this upcoming Wednesday for a rally. This is his second recent visit to the state and shows the emphasis the Trump campaign is putting in Minnesota. They know, after a slim loss in 2016, it’s within reach. He was in Bemidji, Minnesota last week.

Fox News reports, “The president argued during his recent Bemidji Airport visit that Biden would ‘overwhelm- Minnesota’s schools and hospitals by accepting more refugees into the country. Trump added that he would work to make the U.S. the ‘manufacturing superpower of the world’ and end the nation’s reliance on China…He also attacked the former vice president’s stance on crime as Minneapolis sees a spike in homicides amid civil unrest…White House adviser Ivanka Trump and Vice President Mike Pence visited Minneapolis on Wednesday to attend a listening session with a pro-Trump police group and residents who say crime in the city is affecting the president’s reelection campaign.”

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“Yes, Minnesota is a swing state, a battleground state, a purple state, in that it’s a close state,” said Eric Ostermeier, of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota.

“While Minnesota has remained in the blue column since 1976, many of the races since then have been close: the 2016 race, where Clinton won by a slim 1.5 percentage points wasn’t even the closest of them; that’d be 1984, when 0.2 percentage points separated native-son Walter Mondale and Ronald Reagan,” he said.

Nathan Gonzales, the editor and publisher of Inside Elections, had this to say: “[Trump] might be able to…Polls taken around this time in 2016 put Clinton and Trump at similar levels of support to where Biden and Trump are at now. That race turned out to be very close…The amount of time and energy Trump and his surrogates are spending in Minnesota suggests they see potential dividends in the state. Trump has said he believed he would have flipped Minnesota in 2016 if he had visited the state one more time before the election.”

Trump means business. By August the campaign had spent $2.5 million on ads in Minnesota, while Biden campaign spent $790,000.

Preya Samsundar, a Republican National Committee spokesperson, said, “We’re seeing the tides turning. There’s a mass exodus of Democrats. There has been for a long time. We are leaving no stone unturned. We are going after every vote in every county across the state.”

This piece was written by David Kamioner on September 27, 2020. It originally appeared in DrewBerquist.com and is used by permission.

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