Despite being a historically blue county, Blue Earth County Republicans told Alpha News volunteers have handed out more signs this election cycle than ever before. No Republican gubernatorial candidate has won the county since Tim Pawlenty in 2002. It’s been won by every Democratic presidential candidate since 2004, with the exception of Trump in 2016.

“She’s not a strong candidate and I didn’t ever think he was a strong candidate, so I took that that she made a bad choice. Quite frankly, we’d be happy to have him not in the state of Minnesota, but I’d rather have him for two more years now and then someone else later. I don’t think he helped her ticket, let’s put it that way,” Hitzemann said.

(via Power Line)