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Trump takes the fight to blue-state Minnesota. If he can win there, he’s probably unbeatable...
Yahoo! News ^ | October 10, 2019 | Andrew Romano

Posted on 10/10/2019 11:25:52 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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 going to win Minnesota.’”

If Trump were to win Minnesota’s 10 electoral votes, it’s almost impossible to see how a Democrat could defeat him next November. And he’s right: Even though the state is “very hard work” for a Republican — no GOP presidential candidate has carried it since 1972, and no Republican, period, has won a statewide race in 13 years — Trump did, in fact, almost upset Hillary Clinton there in 2016, falling short by just 45,000 votes, or 1.5 percentage points.

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TOPICS: Minnesota; Campaign News; Parties; State and Local
KEYWORDS: minnesota
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To: cuban leaf

“And we all die.”

Better dead than red! The leftists are going all in to destroy her republic so the time to fight is now because there is no later.

If you haven’t donated to the Trump campaign I suggest you do so. If you’re not volunteering - start.


21 posted on 10/10/2019 11:51:56 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (If the Trump Administration doesn't prosecute the coup plotters he loses the election in 2020)
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To: Fido969

“The “anti-war” party will be having a major demonstration. Think they’d give Trump credit for starting to pull out of Syria?”

The anti war party is now pro-war because globalist corporatists will lose a lot of money


22 posted on 10/10/2019 11:52:50 AM PDT by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
If it flips Illinois might be in play.

In what universe?

23 posted on 10/10/2019 11:53:50 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Fido969
The “anti-war” party will be having a major demonstration. Think they’d give Trump credit for starting to pull out of Syria?
Hell, no. Remember Cindy Sheehan, she was their darling when she criticized Bush43 for pur involvement in the endless wars in the ME. BUT, since she criticized 0bama for the same thing, she.....silently.....faded.........away.
24 posted on 10/10/2019 11:55:12 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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To: onyx

Correct...IL, MA, NY, CA, NJ, & VT are writeoffs! It’ll be interesting to see if Trump campaigns in those states!


25 posted on 10/10/2019 11:55:36 AM PDT by gr8eman (Only the mediocre are always at their best)
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To: DoodleDawg

Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan both won Illinois.


26 posted on 10/10/2019 11:57:40 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan both won Illinois.

Both won California, Massachusetts, and New York, too. You think those are in play? Really?

Trump lost Illinois by 17 points in 2016. Not gonna happen.

27 posted on 10/10/2019 12:03:23 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Want to make a wager? 😳
28 posted on 10/10/2019 12:06:39 PM PDT by onyx (#StandWithICE. - #KAG #TRUMP2020Landslide)
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To: gr8eman

CT is a write-off state as well.

I would encourage the Trump campaign to spend their time and money elsewhere.


29 posted on 10/10/2019 12:08:17 PM PDT by cgbg (Vote Trump or you will _be_ Trump)
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To: gr8eman

I’d also add Washington state and D.C. and
likely Oregon as well.


30 posted on 10/10/2019 12:09:05 PM PDT by onyx (#StandWithICE. - #KAG #TRUMP2020Landslide)
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To: SuperLuminal

Too many graveyards in Chicago to happen...

Gangsters+graveyards+illegal aliens == Victory for the demoncrats...


Agree. Best Trump can hope for is to force the Dems to spend money on down-ticket races in Dem stronghold states (IL, CA, NY). That alone would be a leading indicator of a Trump/GOP “bigly” victory.


31 posted on 10/10/2019 12:13:02 PM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Not only CAN he win there, he WILL win there...

Had the election just been a few days later in 2016, he WOULD have won there in 16.


32 posted on 10/10/2019 12:13:30 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: DoodleDawg

Trump didn’t lose Illinois, IMO. Chicago stole it from him.

IL is but one of several rural or red states dominated by the leftist politics of a single large city.


33 posted on 10/10/2019 12:15:24 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: HamiltonJay

can trump win New Mexico?


34 posted on 10/10/2019 12:20:41 PM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: elcid1970
Trump didn’t lose Illinois, IMO. Chicago stole it from him.

Of course. So what makes you think they won't do it again?

IL is but one of several rural or red states dominated by the leftist politics of a single large city.

So? It is what it is. Three-quarters of the people in Illinois live in the Chicago metro area. Cook, Lake, DuPage, Kane, Will, they all went for Hillary by between 6 and 53 points. That's not going to change in 2020.

35 posted on 10/10/2019 12:24:03 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If President Trump can win Duluth, he can carry Minnesota.


36 posted on 10/10/2019 12:24:58 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: HamiltonJay
Had the election just been a few days later in 2016, he WOULD have won there in 16.

And had the election been a few days earlier he could have lost Minnesota by 10 points too.

37 posted on 10/10/2019 12:28:05 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: onyx
Illinois?

As a resident (for now ... ) of this socialist hell-hole, there's simply NFW PDJT can win this state. This state is so far gone it's not even funny.

I'm currently interviewing (via skype) for jobs in Chattanooga, Tennessee and Charleston, South Carolina. The role in Chattanooga looks promising, I'm one of four final candidates and am flying there next week for a F2F with the CTO and CIO of the org. Hoping I get it....

38 posted on 10/10/2019 12:28:27 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trump can win MN!

it is far leftist by inclination but so far the D’s haven’t got a sale-able candidate, just a bunch of liars, anti-American seditionists, and corruptoids

and MN people are intelligent. they can see right through the lying likes of Fake Injun Squaw (can’t even tell the truth about her own self!), corruptoid Biden, and old Bernie the Red, etc. MN people still have some good basic integrity (from the religious heritage of the state, even though not everyone nowadays is faithful). They will vote for a centrist, pragmatist (such as PDJT) if (like PDJT) s/he is basically honest and has the American people’s legitimate best interests at heart (like PDJT).

I am convinced PDJT can win MN! It is a midwestern state at least by heritage, proud not grovelling to dictators or wanna-be dictators...its just not Massachusetts!


39 posted on 10/10/2019 12:29:00 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not , born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: onyx

Unless of course federal Marshals supevise ballot custody and the count due to shenanigans with the early vote and to threats from chapters of ANTIFA.


40 posted on 10/10/2019 12:30:13 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptors)
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