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\"People are afraid, but they're afraid of their neighbors getting sick (from the coronavirus),\" said Becker-Finn. \"That's where the anxiety is. There isn't this sort of top of mind thing where we're, like, afraid to go for walks or like be in our communities.\"
Twila Dang, an African American mother of three who owns a digital media network of podcasters that caters to young women, said it's unlikely that the movement for racial justice that gripped her mostly white, Republican neighborhood in Bloomington changed voters' minds on either side.
\"It felt like the energy around it was more difficult for us than the actual actions themselves. Those actions did not collectively spread down this far that way,\" she said of the unrest. \"Facebook is on fire. But I would say neighbor to neighbor, person to person ... people don't talk a lot about that.\"
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For many suburban voters, the economy and family finances are paramount. And on those issues, Biden and Trump poll neck and neck, according to the ABC News/Washington Post poll.
\"My focus is more immediate on what administration that I think can best pull us out of this crisis the fastest,\" said Fazi, who described herself as a Reagan Republican.
She said public health restrictions imposed by authorities during the pandemic and their adverse impact on local businesses worry her more than the virus itself.
\"I don't like this being a federal mandate,\" she said of government requirements to wear facial coverings. \"This is an enormous country, and I just don't believe that what's right or necessary in the city of New York is necessarily necessary in Iowa.\"
The battle for Minnesota -- and other upper midwestern states like Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan that are close -- may ultimately boil down to suburban women on the margins: Voters like Anne Swenson who are unhappy with Trump but also reluctant to vote for Biden.
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\"Donald Trump probably can't win those suburban women over, but can he give them reasons why they shouldn't vote for Joe Biden,\" said David Schultz, a political science professor and longtime expert on Minnesota politics at Hamline University in St. Paul.
\"If he can keep them from turning out to vote -- and let's say, get his base to turnout at an even higher percentage than they did four years ago -- that's the recipe for a victory here,\" Schultz said.
Swenson told ABC News that she is \"not excited about\" Trump's deficit spending and explosion of federal debt.
\"The other is the rhetoric and civility,\" she said. \"When did being civil to people become a sign of weakness?\"
But, she says, Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris' policy positions trouble her.
\"I don't know necessarily that Joe Biden would last four years, and if he doesn't make four years, then she's in automatically,\" she said.
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Meanwhile, Democrats are confronting lagging enthusiasm for Biden with an appeal to conscience and common sense.
\"To be honest, I think a lot of people are going to do a little: hold their nose and vote,\" said Dang.
\"You cannot complain about your choices. You cannot say, well, I can't vote for that in good conscience. But you'll just let this continue to happen? You'll let the progress that we've seen in a direction you don't feel comfortable with continue to happen?\" she asked.
ABC News' Jackie Yoo and Elizabeth Winter contributed to this report.
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