Minnesota Seemed Ripe for a Trump Breakout. It Has Not Arrived.
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Source: New York Times
DULUTH, Minn. For a campaign event featuring Donald Trump Jr., the brash-talking, liberal-dunking namesake of the president, it was all rather mundane.
There was no large rally with thronging crowds, but a few hundred seats at a community center, each socially distanced. The signature Trump campaign playlist, usually blared at a volume that makes conversation impossible, was replaced by a selection of library-level soft rock.
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It was not supposed to be this way. If any state is positioned to go from blue to red in 2020, to embrace the fullness of Trumpology and provide the president some much-needed Electoral College insurance, it is Minnesota.
But polling from The Times and Siena College indicates that Mr. Trumps edge with rural voters will not be enough to win statewide. Among suburban voters, Mr. Biden was the preferred candidate by 20 points, and suburban voters roundly said that handling of the coronavirus pandemic not law and order was their top priority. That, combined with the edge Democratic candidates have in the states population centers, was enough to surpass Mrs. Clintons performance from 2016.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/13/us/politics/Minnesota-poll-Biden-Trump.html?referringSource=articleShare&fbclid=IwAR1jyEFnldMIqg9WJ_jR7w3_BT7mtnKrdQAgs-9EoDFMlbpxL4wn_NeEla8
Donald Trump Jr. drew a relatively sedate crowd to a recent campaign event in Duluth, Minn.
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)Right?!
the_sly_pig
(740 posts)Only State in the union that voted Mondale. Were more South Canada than Midwest.
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)A lot has happened since then.
mysteryowl
(7,361 posts)red in 2020. The media is also saying Wisconsin could go red.
New polling by CBS Biden, Minnesota, Biden 50%, Trump 41%
Yeah!! It should be more!!
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)Of COVID19? < Mine too.
SergeStorms
(19,148 posts)from anything right now. COVID-19 would be the preferable Karmic method, but I'd settle for a stroke, cardiac arrest, aneurysm (the tiniest blood vessel would do the trick in his brain), infected hangnail........anything!
I was never like this before Donald Trump came along. It makes me sad that I've been reduced to wishing someone dead. That's the effect he has on me, and many, many others.
mzmolly
(50,978 posts)this way either, honestly. I wouldn't allow myself to go there.
keithbvadu2
(36,640 posts)Why are they isolating for a 'hoax'?
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From Trump's rally in Freeland, MI, last night: (10/11 Sep)
CNN's Jim Acosta: "Why are you not wearing your mask?"
Rallygoer: "Because there's no COVID. It's a fake pandemic. Created to destroy the United States of America."
It gets even worse.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214058437
mzmolly
(50,978 posts)MI is Michigan. MN is Minnesota.
keithbvadu2
(36,640 posts)Yep! Trumpers and Trumpers.
applegrove
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