In the 2016 election, then-candidate Donald Trump secured his election victory by breaking through the blue wall of the midwest and winning Wisconsin. Could he go even further this cycle and get Minnesota as well?
The North Star State currently has the longest streak of any in the union of voting Democrat going back to 1972 when Republican Richard Nixon won in a devastating landslide, notching every possible electoral vote except Massachusetts and the District of Columbia. Of course, this was the same year as the Watergate break-in, which later led to Nixon’s resignation in August 1974.
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