Trump Campaign Says It’s Putting More Money Into Minnesota
- Campaign buying home-stretch ads in the long-time blue state
- Biden has polling lead; Democrats confident state won’t flip
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Donald Trump’s campaign said it would target Minnesota with an ad blitz, less than two weeks before Election Day -- a gambit to flip a longtime Democratic stronghold that the president narrowly lost in 2016 and has often mused about winning this year.
Campaign manager Bill Stepien said Friday that internal polling showed a “tightening race” in Minnesota and that the campaign would direct some of its advertising budget to the state. Trump is on defense in a number of states he won in 2016, including Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Arizona, where Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee, holds a lead in public polls.