Posted on 08/20/2016 7:42:46 AM PDT by upchuck
Donald Trump roiled Minnesota politics for a few hours Friday night without ever showing his face in public.
The New York businessman made his first visit to the state as the Republican presidential candidate for a private nighttime fundraiser at the Minneapolis Convention Center. Dozens of protesters gathered out front ahead of the event and marched around the large building. Later in the evening, a smaller contingent grew unruly. Some fundraiser attendees were pushed and jostled, spit on and verbally harassed as they left the convention center.
Trump never appeared in public, and did not grant media interviews or hold a news conference. The fundraiser was closed to the media, but a person in attendance broadcast Trump’s remarks on the live-streaming app Periscope.
“If I could win a state like Minnesota, the path is a whole different thing,” Trump told the cheering crowd. “It becomes a much, much different race. We’re going to give it our greatest shot.”
Wearing a blue blazer, open collar and white baseball cap, Trump said he has “so many friends” in Minnesota and vowed to return “a lot.” He teased his recently hired state director, Mike Lukach, saying he would be “so angry” if he loses the state.
Minnesota last went for the Republican in the presidential race in 1972 when President Richard Nixon defeated George McGovern.
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These riots, for that is what they are, are all organized and paid for by the people that want to destroy this nation and support so called open borders. It is no different than the mobs ginned up by such dictators as Mao, Castro, Hitler and Stalin. The unwitting useful idiots participate in the riots to their own disadvantage since ultimately they will become the wretched refuse of the teeming shores but with no place to go.
I saw video of Democrat thugs getting violent and attacking those leaving. That’s the truth of what their party is.
As a Christian I should not say or think it but I want to say those leftist cretins can all go to hell that they came from.
Trump’s support grows.
With each piece of garbage thrown.
With each punch thrown.
Trump’s support grows.
Spitting on someone is considered assault in most states, have them arrested.
A vote for Democrats is a vote for Communism.
When is SWMNBN going to disavow the support of the Communist Party? Crickets ........
I live in MN, the article says that the violent “protesters” had their faces covered. Taking part in a demonstration with your face covered is against the law in Minnesota. They should have been arrested for that, the fact that the cops allowed them to break the law by having their faces covered, and then break it again by attacking other people, is a disgrace to the law-abiding people of MN.
How much you wanta bet a few of those protesters were Syrian refugees hired by Hitlery and soros to cause havoc!!
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