[Alberta's Child]

That district covers about 25% of the entire state of Minnesota. It's mostly rural, with the exception of the Duluth area. It's probably seen a lot of loss of industry in Duluth and International Falls, and I know they had that debacle within the last year or so where a foreign mining company backed out of a major deal to reopen some of the iron mines up in the Mesabi and Vermillion hills.

This has been a Democratic district for most of the time since World War II. Jim Oberstar represented it for a million years until he lost in the 2010 midterms, and it had a Republican for one term before it went back to the Democratic side. I can easily see the Republican challenger winning this race in a wave of blue-collar support for Donald Trump.

[CMSMC]

Newt said it was a done deal during his little dust up with Kelly the other night. Glad to see Mills cut his hair for this year’s run.