There’s nothing internal about it. Trump lost MN by 1.5 points four years ago. It borders key states IA and WI. The three Republicans (Trump/Johnson/McMullin) took over 51% of the MN vote. His campaign was always going to compete here. DJT can not only flip its 10 electoral votes, but also two key U.S. House seats and a U.S. Senate seat.
“There’s nothing internal about it. Trump lost MN by 1.5 points four years ago. It borders key states IA and WI. The three Republicans (Trump/Johnson/McMullin) took over 51% of the MN vote. His campaign was always going to compete here. DJT can not only flip its 10 electoral votes, but also two key U.S. House seats and a U.S. Senate seat.”
All good points. Fischbach should be WAY ahead in heavily Republican CD-7 now that Peterson’s gone, but those others are going to be nailbiters. The Senate seat being in play at all is very refreshing.
BTW, is there any realistic chance of getting CD-3 back in 2020? I’m guessing ‘no’. It was represented by Republican squishes for years — maybe that’s the best we can do here? — but this Karen-heavy district flipped hard in 2018 and Paulsen (~70% liberal RINO) got destroyed by some 100% liberal Democrat.
“(Trump/Johnson/McMullin) took over 51% of the MN vote. “
Even better, Minn had the third highest third party vote of all the states - 5% to Johnson and McMullin. I figure Trump nets 45,000 votes with those two gone, which was the Hillary difference.