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No Republican presidential candidate has won Minnesota since Richard Nixon in 1972. But Donald Trump came close in 2016, losing to Hillary Clinton by 44,765 votes, a margin of just over 1.5 percent percentage points. Here are three scenarios — note Minnesota political observers — where Trump can win. WEAK DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE Many Democratic strategists now agree that the biggest problem with Hillary Clinton’s candidacy was Hillary Clinton. For whatever reason, voters simply didn’t turn out for her. Trump’s 1.32 million votes was almost identical to what 2012 GOP candidate Mitt Romney got. But Clinton’s 1.37 million votes was a...

We’ve known it all along. Like their colleagues in Washington, D.C., and around the country, Minnesota Democrats are unable to cope with the 2016 election results. While Reps. Angie Craig, Dean Phillips and Collin Peterson have continued to take their cues from Speaker Nancy Pelosi, local Twin Cities Democrats have also fallen in line, mimicking the rhetoric of their national counterparts to stay in line with their party’s messaging against the president. As Democrats like Mayor Jacob Frey continue to obstruct and ignore the wishes of Minnesotans by announcing that President Donald Trump is not welcome in the city, and...

On Thursday evening, President Trump will arrive at Minneapolis’s Target Center for his first political rally since House Democrats began an impeachment investigation. Which raises the question: Why Minnesota? Because Trump thinks he can win there in 2020. “[That’s a] state that I’m going to win — Minnesota,” Trump told Turning Point USA in July. “I almost won it last time. We came [within] just about a point. Minnesota is very hard work for a Republican to win. We almost won it — one more night. I wanted to go there one more time. I said, ‘I’m telling you, we’re...

President Trump heads to Minnesota Thursday for a campaign rally in a state that he narrowly lost in 2016 but hopes to win in 2020. In 2016, Hillary Clinton squeaked out a win by a mere 1.5% in the state. Still, Mr. Trump surpassed expectations in the state, which currently holds the longest record of voting Democratic in presidential elections and was the only state won by Walter Mondale in Ronald Reagan's 49-state landslide in 1984. The last Republican to win Minnesota was Richard Nixon in 1972. Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez said at a meeting in June that...

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - In response to President Donald Trump's planned visit to the Target Center in Minneapolis Thursday, First Avenue announced it will donate all of its profits that day to Planned Parenthood. According to the music venue, concerts planned for Thursday night will go on as scheduled, and all profits from First Avenue--including the 7th St Entry and The Depot Tavern--will be donated to Planned Parenthood North Central States. “While we are not a political organization, First Avenue has hosted candidates and events across the political spectrum and supports diversity of thought. However, the actions and policies of...

Supporters of President Donald Trump protested Wednesday outside the City Hall office of Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, who has been in a public spat with the Trump campaign over the $530,000 security bill for Thursday’s Target Center rally. Chants of “We support our police, Frey do you?” and “Trump, Trump, Trump!” rang out for about a half-hour as the crowd of about two dozen people mobilized outside of Frey’s office. The mayor was not present, in observance of Yom Kippur. Plans for the rally first surfaced late Tuesday afternoon when the national coordinator of Bikers for Trump posted a Facebook...

Trump supporters line up early as Minneapolis Police prepare for crowds.

Trump campaign claims victory in battle with leftist mayor over Minneapolis rally expenses

President Trump’s campaign on Tuesday that they had won a dispute with a Minneapolis arena to hold a MAGA rally there Thursday without paying $530,000 bill for security. “The arena in Minneapolis has been fully approved. The Target Center has backed off cancelling the contract, which means President Trump’s Keep America Great rally will go on as scheduled,” the campaign said in a statement. “Consistent with our original agreement with the venue, the Trump campaign has not agreed to pay any additional funds. We look forward to seeing everyone Thursday night.”

Article's full title: "Minneapolis' liberal mayor trying to 'bully' President Trump out of Minnesota, says head of police union" Excerpt: The mayor of Minneapolis, a Democrat, is trying to "antagonize" and "bully" President Trump to discourage him from coming to the historically blue state, a police union leader said Tuesday. Kroll's claims are in line with Trump's campaign manager, Brad Parscale, who accused Frey of "abuse of power" over a proposed $530,000 security fee to use the arena.

Your position is clearly wrong under the plain wording of the contract. Neither the Campaign nor AEG is responsible for arranging or paying for rally-related security. Rather, the U.S. Secret Service – and the U.S. Secret Service alone – is “solely and directly” responsible for coordinating law enforcement services in connection with the rally. “As such, no law enforcement costs shall be coordinated by [AEG], charged through [AEG] to [the Campaign], or shall otherwise be reimbursable expenses in connection with the [contract].” The Campaign cannot be in breach of an obligation it does not owe to AEG. Yet AEG’s failure...

A public library in the Midwest has invited a drag queen known for his adult entertainment show titled “Gender Fluids” to read to toddlers during its Saturday story hour on multiple occasions. Billing himself as “Miss Richfield 1981,” Russ King is a drag artist who has previously been photographed in a sacrilegious pose, spread eagle on top of what looks like an altar beneath a large cross at St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church in San Francisco. King’s website and Facebook page display many disturbing photos of him dressed in garish clothing in exaggerated feminine poses, sometimes with nearly naked or naked...

BREAKING: Police Union Website Suspended After President Trump Urges Supporters to Purchase Their “Cops for Trump” T-Shirts President Donald Trump thanked the Minnesota Police Department Federation on Tuesday for selling “Cops for Trump” T-shirts after the radical Minneapolis Mayor blocked police from wearing uniforms to the upcoming Trump rally.

The Vice President will make a stop in Minnesota just hours before the president this week. Vice President Mike Pence will visit Minnesota Thursday before President Donald Trump stops for a rally in Minneapolis later that night. The Minnesota GOP said that second lady Karen Pence and Lara Trump will also visit the state a day earlier for an event at Union Depot in St. Paul. The Office of the Vice President confirmed Pence will land in Minnesota just before 4 p.m. and will go to Safety Signs in Lakeville. He will then join President Trump at his rally later...

Minneapolis Liberal Mayor trying to "bully" President Trump out of Minnesota, says Police head of Police union.

MINNEAPOLIS — A wide spectrum of community organizations and labor unions have announced plans for protests outside of President Donald Trump's Minneapolis campaign rally Thursday. They're predicting that thousands will converge on the congested area around the Target Center starting at 5:30 p.m. that evening, in an effort to counter the message the president's supporters will be hearing indoors. "This group of people and all of the coalition have signed onto an agreement of making sure this rally and this protest is peaceful for everyone," Jaylani Hussein of the Council on American Islamic Relations, or CAIR, told reporters Monday. "We...

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - President Donald Trump's campaign is threatening to sue the city of Minneapolis over costs related to Thursday’s rally at Target Center. According to the Trump campaign, Minneapolis planned to charge AEG, the company that runs Target Center, $530,000 for security and other costs related to the rally. Target Center then tried pass those costs on to the Trump campaign by threatening to withhold the use of the arena. The campaign says the U.S. Secret Service is solely responsible for coordinating security and accuses Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey of "attempting to extort" the campaign by creating a...

President Trump Campaign Manager Brad Parscale is reporting that Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey is attempting to block President Trump from speaking at an event in the city on Thursday October 10th. This is beyond outrageous.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., defended her call for potential "prison abolition" as part of broader restructuring of the criminal justice system, in a series of tweets Monday. "Mass incarceration is our American reality. It is a system whose logic evolved from the same lineage as Jim Crow, American apartheid, & slavery," Ocasio-Cortez wrote in reaction to a tweet from comedian Chelsea Handler. "To end it, we have to change. That means we need to have a real conversation about decarceration & prison abolition in this country." The Democrat recalled a conversation she had with a woman who was "thrown into...

US Rep. Ilhan Omar suggested Monday that the press and her political foes are partly to blame for the demise of her marriage. “Ilhan and Ahmed have been the object of speculation and innuendo from political opponents and the media,” according to a statement from her lawyer, referring to the Minnesota congresswoman and her husband, Ahmed Hirsi, and which the rep said he was issuing “on behalf” of Omar. “This has taken a significant toll on Ilhan, Ahmed, and their three children. “As with all marriages, this is intensely personal and a difficult time for their family,” the statement added.