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Oh my, the winds of change quietly removing the smoke Adre loves to blow up our caboose on a daily basis:


Trump threatening to end Democrats' half-century lock on Minnesota
by David M. Drucker, Senior Political Correspondent |
September 11, 2020 06:30 AM
Minnesota, reliably Democratic in presidential elections since it went for Richard Nixon in 1972, is emerging as a swing state this year, possibly just in time to salvage President Trump’s reelection bid.
Trump trails Democratic nominee Joe Biden in as many as eight swing states — Arizona, Florida, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin — while holding narrow leads in the typically deep red battlegrounds of Georgia and Texas. With so many flanks to guard, Trump’s rising fortunes in Minnesota, a state representing perhaps his lone offensive opportunity, could prove critical to his second-term prospects.
With the Labor Day kickoff of the fall campaign in the rearview mirror, Biden’s lead over Trump in Minnesota was down to 5 percentage points, 49.5% to 44.5%. That puts the president in striking distance of the state’s 10 Electoral College votes.
Trump is gaining ground with culturally conservative, blue-collar voters across rural northern Minnesota that have voted Democratic for decades. The transformation is part of a trend that began in 2016 and has seen the president, and down-ballot Republicans, convert longtime Democratic voters into Republicans because of concerns that the Democrats have become a party of liberal, coastal elites.
More angst for Adre here:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...-end-democrats-half-century-lock-on-minnesota


Trump threatening to end Democrats' half-century lock on Minnesota
by David M. Drucker, Senior Political Correspondent |
September 11, 2020 06:30 AM
Minnesota, reliably Democratic in presidential elections since it went for Richard Nixon in 1972, is emerging as a swing state this year, possibly just in time to salvage President Trump’s reelection bid.
Trump trails Democratic nominee Joe Biden in as many as eight swing states — Arizona, Florida, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin — while holding narrow leads in the typically deep red battlegrounds of Georgia and Texas. With so many flanks to guard, Trump’s rising fortunes in Minnesota, a state representing perhaps his lone offensive opportunity, could prove critical to his second-term prospects.
With the Labor Day kickoff of the fall campaign in the rearview mirror, Biden’s lead over Trump in Minnesota was down to 5 percentage points, 49.5% to 44.5%. That puts the president in striking distance of the state’s 10 Electoral College votes.
Trump is gaining ground with culturally conservative, blue-collar voters across rural northern Minnesota that have voted Democratic for decades. The transformation is part of a trend that began in 2016 and has seen the president, and down-ballot Republicans, convert longtime Democratic voters into Republicans because of concerns that the Democrats have become a party of liberal, coastal elites.
More angst for Adre here:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...-end-democrats-half-century-lock-on-minnesota
