Trump reelection campaign hiring in Minnesota, New Mexico

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President Trump’s reelection campaign says it is hiring staff and opening field offices in Minnesota and New Mexico, two traditionally blue states the president’s strategists have identified as having potential to flip in 2020.


https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/465856-trump-re-elect-campaign-hiring-in-minnesota-new-mexico

 

[vraiblonde]

NM seems to be doing okay, but MN is ripe for change unless the citizens are just morons who like it that way.

 

[SamSpade]

NM seems to be doing okay, but MN is ripe for change unless the citizens are just morons who like it that way.

That seems to be my perspective as well, which at first blush would seem - odd.
For one thing, Minnesota hasn't voted for a Republican since NIXON. Yep. They even went for MONDALE in '84.
But Minnesota is also largely blue collar, which has trended towards the right since Trump.
And Hillary NARROWLY won Minnesota last time.

New Mexico - not so much. It once was reliably Republican - and has voted in Republican governors (which is another matter).
But with one exception - Bush in 2004, which was a squeaker - it's voted Democrat for the last 30 years.
I have no idea why - except it corresponds remarkably with a large influx of illegals over the last several decades.