Minnesota Seemed Ripe for a Trump Breakout. It Has Not Arrived.
The state’s northern and eastern regions have grown more conservative over the years, and Republicans won two House seats in the state during the 2018 midterm elections — a rare bright spot during an election characterized by an anti-Trump wave. Going into 2020, conservatives crowed that the issues that defined the state’s politics were straight from Mr. Trump’s playbook: in particular, a robust refugee relocation program that has inspired a white backlash in certain places outside the Twin Cities.
This year, after the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, a wave of destruction gripped the city — exactly the type of urban unrest that Mr. Trump uses to stoke white fear.
“Try wearing a MAGA hat in Portland, Chicago, New York City, Kenosha, Minneapolis,” the younger Mr. Trump said to the crowd.
“They’ll kill you!” an audience member shouted out.
“There’s a reason we’re doing so well here,” the president’s son went on. “People have woken up. They’re sick of being lied to. And they’re sick of people who don’t deserve it being given the benefit of the doubt.”
At this moment, however, most evidence indicates that Mr. Trump is in a worse position in 2020 than where he finished in 2016. New polling from The New York Times and Siena College shows that Mr. Biden leads Mr. Trump by nine percentage points in the state, more than five times the small margin Hillary Clinton won the state by four years ago. And while Mr. Trump does enjoy the firm backing of conservatives in rural areas who support his law-and-order message, the same theme has not resonated with the larger coalition he would need to overtake the Democrats.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/13/us/politics/Minnesota-poll-Biden-Trump.html
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