CBS News reports:
Former President Donald Trump will head to Minnesota on a day off from his hush money trial for a Republican fundraiser Friday night in a traditionally Democratic state that he boasts he can carry in November.
Trump visited to Minnesota several times in 2020, when Biden beat him by more than 7 points. In the run-up to that election, Trump said he would never return to Minnesota should he lose there.
“What we’ve done for Minnesota — I lose Minnesota, I’m never coming back,” Trump said. “I don’t care. I’m never coming back.” Minnesota has not voted for a Republican presidential candidate since the state went to Richard Nixon in 1972.
Read the full article. In an interview today with a Minnesota station, Trump denied having said he’d never go back. And then he denied that Biden won Minnesota in 2020. Watch the LOL clip.
KSTP: I think at one point you vowed never to come back to Minnesota after you lost the state in 2020.
TRUMP: Well, I never said I’d never come back. I never even thought of that.
KSTP: *cuts to tape of Trump saying “if I lose Minnesota, I’m never coming back” at a rally* pic.twitter.com/XCm9wNb4bJ
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 17, 2024