“If it were not for the city of Minneapolis, Clinton loses the state,” Todd said, emphasizing that a Republican presidential nominee has not carried the state since 1972.
“The closeness … underscores how much this state has changed right in plain sight while no one was paying attention,” he added.
Demographically Minnesota is very similar to Wisconsin which has become a bonafide red state in the past 7 years, the only thing that holds Minnesota back from matching Wisconsin’s flip to Trump is that demographically the blue islands of the Twin-cities are larger than the blue islands of Madison and Milwaukee in Wisconsin.
The GOP’s next step in the state is to continue to recruit candidates to challenge three U.S. House seats held by Democrats that are very winnable for the Republicans.
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