SHOREWOOD, Minn. — President Donald Trump landed just after 4 p.m. in Minneapolis where he attended a fundraiser in Shorewood before heading to Duluth Wednesday night for a rally at Duluth International Airport.
This is the third time in recent weeks the president has visited Minnesota, which is a hotly contested battleground state in this year's election.
Trump led an airport rally in Mankato on Aug. 17 and another in Bemidji on Sept. 18, the same day that Democratic challenger Joe Biden visited a union training center in Duluth.
Minnesota is also getting attention from surrogates for the candidates. Vice President Mike Pence and presidential daughter Ivanka Trump stopped in Minnesota last week. The president’s son, Eric Trump, will visit a trucking company in Becker on Thursday. On Saturday, former second lady Jill Biden will make her second visit to Minnesota this month.
No Republican presidential candidate has carried Minnesota since Richard Nixon did it in 1972. But Trump lost Minnesota by only about 45,000 votes in 2016.
