Trump, RNC Will Make Big Push to Turn Minnesota ‘Red’

Published on May 18, 2024

Former President Donald Trump wants to add Minnesota to the list of “blue” Democrat states that he will try to flip to Republican “red.” “This is an official expansion … of the electoral map,” he declared on May 17 at a fundraising dinner in Saint Paul, Minnesota. That state hasn’t voted for a Republican presidential candidate since 1972, according to 270towin.com. But polls are showing “we are right on the cusp of turning the state red,” Alex Plechash, a Minnesota Republican National Committeeman, told The Epoch Times. The RealClearPolitics average of Minnesota polls shows President Biden drawing 43 percent support, ahead of President Trump by about 2 percentage points. But that’s within the margin of error, making the race a statistical dead heat....

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