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- ABC News
- Donald Trump
- October 11, 2019
Trump rallies to flip Minn amid impeachment fight
The Trump campaign is looking to expand their electoral map in 2020.
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The campaign is already hard at work testing that thesis in the blue state of Minnesota, pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars in ads and building out staff on the ground where Trump lost by just 1.5 votes in 2016.
\"Last time in 2016 we had one paid staffer in Minnesota and he was eventually moved to Colorado,\" Murtaugh said. \"And now, at the moment we have 20 full time paid staffers and by Election Day we will have nearly 100,\" he added, while also mentioning the campaign plans to spend tens of millions in the state ahead of 2020.
On top of bringing the president and Vice President Mike Pence to the rally at the Target Center, the campaign also put on a \"Women for Trump\" event on Wednesday in St. Paul hosted by the second lady Karen Pence, and Lara Trump, the president's daughter-in-law. The campaign and the Republican National Committee has also already dumped over $300,000 on the ads in the state fighting back against impeachment leading up to Thursday's rally, according to Federal Communications Commission filings.
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Minnesota represents a unique testing ground for a campaign fighting hard to prove it can not only flip the state next year but turn impeachment into an asset for the president.
Yet there were plenty of protesters on hand outside the venue as well. Hundreds of protesters set fire to Make America Great Again hats and other Trump memorabilia before police in tactical gear broke the crowd up, according to reports.
And the campaign has already proved, at least early on, it can at least turn impeachment into cash — spending millions fundraising off Democrats' newly launched inquiry in late September, and bringing in $8.5 million in the first 48 hours — 50,000 of which came from new donors, according to the campaign.
Thursday's rally also provided a slew of opportunities for the president to not only go on offense against his favorite 2020 Democratic targets like former Vice President Joe Biden who's also engulfed in Trump's Ukraine scandal, but also Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar and Mayor Jacob Frey—who Trump's already clashed with over a security fee dispute leading up to the campaign rally.
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Omar, who months earlier was on the receiving end of racist attacks from not only the president, who told the congresswoman and three of her peers to \"go back\" to their home countries, but also from Trump supporters at a rally in July whose chants of \"send her back\" were aimed at the Somali refugee who became a US citizen.
\"Trump will see his rally in my district today as an opportunity to attack me,\" Omar preemptively tweeted hours before Thursday's rally. \"But no smear will ever stop me from working toward what I'm in Congress to do,\" the congresswoman added, listing off a number of goals she hopes to achieve including \"impeach Trump.
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