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. Trump’s 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 state’s population centers, was enough to surpass Mrs. Clinton’s 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.
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MI is Michigan. MN is Minnesota.
