It has been 52 years since Richard Nixon won the state of Minnesota in the 1972 presidential election, and no Republican has managed to do it since, but former President Donald Trump may have the party’s best shot at turning the state red in half a century.

For most of the year, Trump has argued that he will expand the electoral map for Republicans and contest states that have been reliably Democratic for decades. He recently held a rally in deep-blue New Jersey that attracted a crowd of nearly 100,000 people and is planning a rally in the Bronx borough of New York City on Thursday.