Well, it’s been over 50 years since a Republican clinched Minnesota.
But President Trump believes he’s got “a really good shot” at ending that drought come November.
Trump made his case Friday evening while headlining the Minnesota GOP’s annual Lincoln Reagan fundraising dinner.
He kicked off his speech with the usual digs at Biden’s cognitive abilities.
He even threw in a dig about the upcoming debates. “He’s going to be so jacked up for those, you watch.”
Trump predicts 'jacked up' Biden at upcoming debates, blasts Bidenomics in battleground speechhttps://t.co/r6aP3GwG2V
Dumbasses in Minnesota. Keep voting for Democrat losers, LOSERS.— Joey C (@Jocava327919) May 18, 2024
Fox News reports:
It’s been more than 50 years since a Republican won Minnesota in a presidential election, but former President Trump says he’s got “a really good shot” of breaking the losing streak this November in his 2024 rematch with President Biden.
ADVERTISEMENTThe former president is in the historically reliable blue state Friday evening to headline the Minnesota GOP’s annual Lincoln Reagan fundraising dinner. He began his speech with the usual jabs at Biden’s cognitive ability, but also referenced the recently agreed to debates between the two.
“He’s going to be so jacked up for those, you watch,” Trump joked.
He went on to promise a rollback of Biden’s environmental mandates relating to automakers, and railed against other sour economic statistics under the Biden economy.
Trump lost Minnesota by just 1½ points in his 2016 presidential election victory over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. Four years ago, he lost the state to President Biden by more than seven points in his unsuccessful re-election campaign.
Ahead of the 2020 election, Trump promised a victory in Minnesota, saying that if he lost, “I’m never coming back.”
Fast-forward four years and Trump is back and once again predicting a victory.
“We think we have a really good shot at Minnesota,” Trump emphasized in an interview Wednesday with KSTP, a local TV station in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. “We have great friendships up there.”
Trump added that he’s “worked hard on Minnesota” and that “Tom Emmer is very much involved,” pointing to the House majority whip.
Emmer, who is joining Trump at the state GOP gala, is chairing the Trump campaign in Minnesota even though the former president and his allies helped sink Emmer’s bid last autumn to become House speaker.
As the Trump and Biden campaigns prepare for battle in seven crucial swing states that decided the 2020 election (Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, which were narrowly won by Biden, and North Carolina, which Trump carried by a razor-thin margin) and will likely once again in the 2024 rematch, both campaigns see opportunities to expand the map.
ADVERTISEMENTTwo weekends ago at a closed-door Republican National Committee retreat for top-dollar donors at a resort in Palm Beach, Florida, senior Trump campaign advisers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita and veteran pollster Tony Fabrizio spotlighted internal surveys that suggested both “Minnesota and Virginia are clearly in play.”
“In both states, Trump finds himself in positions to flip key electoral votes in his favor,” the survey, which was shared with Fox News, emphasizes.
Crooked Joe Biden is all about DISINFORMATION.
Pilots come in; he says, "I used to fly a plane."
Truckers come in; he says, "I used to drive a truck."
People come in from Minnesota; he says, "I used to live in Minnesota."
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) May 18, 2024
Maybe Biden will get drug tested before the debates, like Trump suggested:
Donald Trump calls for Joe Biden to be Drug Tested Before He Debates Him
“That white stuff that they found, which happens to be cocaine, in the White House, I think somethings going on there.
Because I watched the state of the union and he was all jacked up there, and by the… pic.twitter.com/Emf7DbvZiU
— MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) April 4, 2024
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