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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Like Reagan, Trump is a conservative Republican president who appeals to the working and middle classes. Ironically, Minnesota is the one state Reagan didn't carry in 1984. But I think Trump carries it this time.
Are they changing the words now, is it an impeachment inquiry or an impeachment investigation, or an impeachment kangaroo court? Doesn't matter this rally is going to be HUGE. Lots of energy on the Dem side too, I hear Biden had 13 people at his last presser and Liz had almost 20.
“Win the only state Mondale carried? That would be an amazing feat!”
There is mining and manufacturing areas of Minnesota and those folks get it.
It’s doable but it may also be a distraction to tie up Rat resources.
Either way, that’s all positive for President Trump in 2020.
Yes.
No Gary Johnson on the ballot out west this time, I fully expect NM, CO and NV to swing.
That statement on its own isn't true. Cook County (Chicago and near suburbs) and St. Clair County are the two counties that primarily drive federal elections here in Illinois. When I say primarily drive, that means their combined votes typically drive federal and state-wide election result because the religiously vote Democrat in an overwhelming percentage.
The last few election cycles have seen what was once reliably Republican, DuPage County, turn purple and Will County (where I lived for 30 years) has become a Red leaning Purple battleground.
There is no doubt in my mind that this state is rapidly following California into the shitter. That the Democrats in this state have commanding majorities in the State Legislature and have been taxing us left and right on everything should tell even the most hardened partisan that this state is lost.
NFW President Trump should even bother to spend one minute here. Not one single campaign dollar either.
Here are the Counties in Illinois with their population. You can easily see how the combination of Cook and St. Clair Counties dominate statewide and federal elections. It's like they're twins in demographics and voting patterns.
that’s gonna make it hard for the D’s.....with that, even PA could go blue, right?
ROFLMAO!!!
That remains yet to be seen. You haven’t fought with his supporters yet. I suspect that right after you do, you will be singing a different tune. I also suspect that you will be able to do two different things: 1.See what your intestines look like. 2. Learn how they feel when you hold them in your hands.
PA is not going to the Dems... Trump has PA locked down...
The midwest states that the “folks in the know” think could swing back blue are WI and MI... and my money is, not a chance in hell for either of them.
St. Louis County went for Clinton.
If he can win all he won last time and flip MN, NH and VA and they appear to be in his win column then he needs to go after NV, NM and CO. He might run in CA just to contrast the differences in capitalism and communism, plus he might siphon enough votes off there to really run up the popular vote count. That being said I wouldn’t waste a lot of money in that self-inflicted communist crap hole of a state.
man. to think that there could ever be a GOP candidate who has PA “locked down” is just crazy....not disputing, but sort of rejoicing!
Uh, when I said Chicago drives federal elections, that sorta means Cook County doesn’t it? It has a huge population.
I mean, Al Capone lived in Cicero but was he really outside of greater Chicago?
But what makes Clair County so powerful politically? Don’t get it.
I once drove the entire length of Illinois from Paducah KY to Beloit WI. Most beautiful rural countryside I have ever seen, dotted with silos & family farmhouses. And turbine wind farms which I didn’t care for much.
And all that’s going to you-know-what because of two counties? IL is losing population IIRC but Dem politics is what turns prosperity into Venezuela; it’s not even about ideology the-greatest-good-for-the-greatest-number, but just power, pure power in the Orwellian sense.
I live in a state with several cities that think they drive the debate, but they really don’t and are always sniping at each other in the state assembly to prove it. Pure luxury.
How about Nevada, New Hampshire, and Oregon?
was Mondales home state....
Not big money, but I expect Trump to win NH this time around. In 2016 Gary Johnson got 30k votes in NH, and Trump only needed 3k of those to carry the state.
When Trump delivered his I am running speech, it was utterly obvious, what his strategy was (to anyone who wasn’t inside the beltway) his path to the White House from day one, was RIGHT up the upper midwest... His message was absolutely spot on on Trade and Illegals... and there was no doubt he would win most if not all of the upper midwest (sans MN and IL), and he damned near took MN as well.
PA has the lowest unemployment since they started keeping records right now... Trump won this region by appealing to disenfranchised Democrats.. who’s party had ignored and abandoned them.. and he got a LOT of them... and there are a lot more that sat on the sidelines thinking Trump was just all talk, and another lying politician, or were scared by Hillary’s he’s the devil campaign.... Those folks won’t be scared or skeptical in 2020 and will show up in droves...
Anyone telling you that Trump will lose in 2020, or that it will be close, doesn’t understand exactly why, or HOW Trump won in 16.
Trump is not in any danger in PA at all... regardless of who the Candidate is for the D’s.
FWIW, Trump hit 5 cities the Sunday before election day, Pittsburgh being 4 (was there front row and center)and then Leesburg, VA. A few days before, they changed his itinerary from Wisconsin to MN. After hitting WI a few times they thought they had a better chance for MN than they did WI, (not my words but theirs). MN actually looked more promising than WI did so they did a last minute change. This is not a knock on Trump or anyone, but I don’t think they thought their chances were that good and were trying everything up til the last minute.
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