A close election in 2016, shifting allegiances in a Democratic stronghold and competing appeals to middle-class voters will throw the spotlight on Minnesota as President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden each campaign in the Gopher State.
Trump will hold an airport rally on Friday in Bemidji in the northern part of the state, birthplace of the fictional Paul Bunyon. Bemidji is in Beltrami County, which Trump managed to flip in 2016, making him the first Republican to carry the county since George W. Bush in 2000. Biden will be in Duluth.
“This isn't the Democrat Party that used to fight for places like the Iron Range, just like this isn't the Democrat Party that used to fight for places like western Pennsylvania or southeastern Ohio – and these people have woken up to that," Trainer said. Weber, the former House member, tried unsuccessfully to swing the culturally conservative region filled with Catholics, hunters and fishermen to former President George W. Bush. But Weber predicted Trump could win the region with 60% of the vote.
Weber said Trump could make progress in the Twin Cities, host to a number of corporate headquarters, by promoting the reduction in the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%. The departure of Medtronic, a medical-device manufacturer founded in Minneapolis, roiled the city when it“If it were properly articulated, that would be an argument in suburban Minneapolis," Weber said."A tax message would matter.
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