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| Trump was just re-elected: Dems admit that MN now lost; other blue states are in play for November | |
| 2020-05-31 | |
Within Minnesota, there are already discussions about the potential impact on several competitive congressional races. Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s history as a local prosecutor is suddenly under heightened scrutiny, leading to widespread speculation that the events were likely to dim her prospects of becoming Joe Biden’s vice presidential nominee. Outside the state, the president’s caustic remarks about protesters and the mayor of Minneapolis quickly underscored the political dimensions of the unrest, and the likelihood that it would become the next cultural wedge issue — another point of contention in the urban-rural divide that stands to define the November election. Mike Erlandson, a former chairman of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer Labor Party, said he watched with his 15-year-old daughter in Minnesota this week as a man spray-painted on a wall, “F--k the white people from the suburbs.” “I do think that, particularly if this continues, the [congressional] districts like Dean Phillips’ district or Angie Craig’s district that right now I would say are relatively safe for the Democratic incumbent, could be very much in play,” he said. “Both of those districts will be decided in large part by suburban women voters, and it would be hard for me to imagine those people aren’t watching this scared, like everybody else, for their family and for their children.” Minnesota is not critical to Trump’s reelection prospects. But it is one of the few offensive opportunities he has to win a state he lost in 2016, and he has invested heavily there. Though a Star Tribune/MPR News/KARE 11 poll last weekend showed Trump lagging behind Biden by 5 percentage points, he had improved his standing significantly from October, when he was down 12 percentage points, and he is beating Biden in Minnesota’s rural areas and with men. Even a marginal shift in the electorate in Minnesota could prove significant, not only in the presidential race, but in several House contests there. There are Phillips and Craig, two first-term Democratic representatives from suburban districts. But in rural, western Minnesota, House Agriculture Chairman Collin Peterson, a Democrat, is attempting to hang onto a seat that has become increasingly conservative in recent years — every county in his district voted for Trump, many by landslide margins. This week, Republicans in Minnesota pounced on Tim Walz, the Democratic governor, and Frey, the Minneapolis mayor. Days of protests saw boarded-up storefronts and the closure of public transportation systems in the area. On Thursday, protesters set fire to the 3rd Precinct Minneapolis police station. | |
| Posted by:Lex |
| #18 Frank sorry to hear about your mom. My mom was a Dem too but back when Kennedy was all about ask not what your country can do for you.....she wouldn't recognize the Dem party these days. |
| Posted by: Jan 2020-05-31 23:44 |
| #17 Curfew! For 7 days! |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-05-31 22:41 |
| #16 My best to your mom, Frank. Stay safe. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-05-31 22:04 |
| #15 ^ Plugz makes Hubert Humphrey look charismatic. Dems are toast. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-05-31 22:03 |
| #14 Milwaukee should be fun |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-05-31 21:43 |
| #13 We've seen this movie before. 1968 all over again. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-05-31 21:23 |
| #12 Spike Grineng8188, I don't think there is a poster on Rantburg that won't cast a vote on election day, overconfident or not. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2020-05-31 20:35 |
| #11 If Trump gets cheated on the election, you just might see violence of another kind. Hope not, but you never know. |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-05-31 16:26 |
| #10 Hillary thought she had the election in the bag. This arrogance is unsettling. It's going go be a ton of hard work to get Trump reelected, with the left cheating all the way. |
| Posted by: Spike Grineng8188 2020-05-31 16:04 |
| #9 The Socialists are following their kindred Palestinian model, always pass up an opportunity. Yes, don't get cocky, but never interfere with your enemy when he is destroying himself. THEY have plenty of time between now and November to do even more incredibly stupid stuff. Watch them defend the barbarians. This has nothing to do with 'social justice' its nothing but the Vandals sacking Rome. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-05-31 15:34 |
| #8 Well, my 83 yr old Mom got caught up on the highway at the La Mesa protests. She was shaken badly and still was later when I talked to her. A reliable Democrat vote may have been lost yesterday |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-05-31 15:26 |
| #7 Great last point, charger - spot fuckin' on. |
| Posted by: Raj 2020-05-31 14:50 |
| #6 #5 Agreed. We're still five months from Election Day. Lots can happen, including a dynamic where we go from properly blaming the left, to people (and let's be honest here, especially women voters) saying: "Well, if it weren't for the tone of Trump's tweets and the coarsening of public discourse, maybe this wouldn't have happened. Let the healing begin with (Name of Dem nominee here)" After living through the Obama era and the Dem resurgence in the House, I'm not willing to dismiss just how dumb the electorate can be. And that's not even mentioning how much help they'll get from squeamish GOPers who long to return to the good old days of polite, ineffectual "opposition". |
| Posted by: charger 2020-05-31 14:46 |
| #5 Don't get cocky. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-05-31 13:55 |
| #4 Trump to declare Antifa a Terrorist Organization. The battle is joined |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2020-05-31 13:53 |
| #3 another point of contention in the urban-rural divide that stands to define the November election. Presidential elections are won or lost in the suburbs. The Dems just lost a large number of those moderate-squishy suburbanites they thought they could peel away from OrangeMan. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-05-31 11:51 |
| #2 I love the stock media phrase, Republicans pounce. Is there a keyboard macro for this? |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-05-31 11:48 |
| #1 God does not play dice. Leftists do not play chess. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2020-05-31 11:45 |