I’m a recovering elected official who has lived in MN for 30+ years now and I can assure you that MN may actually be in play. The outstate areas are overwhelmingly trump and the statewide mock high school election he won (and kids tend to vote in those things similar to the leanings of their parents.) There are a number of people I know who are traditional “FDR” democrats who reliably vote all democrat are voting 3rd party because they can’t stand / trust Hillary. If Trump can win 44% of the vote here he beats Hillary by a hair because Johnson will probably garner his highest support in the nation right here in MN and that eats into Hillary’s base. The year Ventura won as governor the Dem (Herbert Humphrey’s own grandson) came in 3rd place due to a split vote. I’m not saying it’ll happen but the vibe I have is that Trump isn’t desperate or wasting his time as others here have said.
Agreed, and yesterday or today, Trump made 4 appearances, that is a lot and with that many appearances, if one is in the area, yes, maybe one can squeeze in a state and as said, this probably hits home a bit in Western Wisconsin as well. 2 birds.