Sunday, March 13, 2022

Minnesota Democrats are already making headway in Beltrami County

 

Source Wikipedia

Trump received 1,405 more votes than he did in 2016, a 13% increase.

Biden received 2,738 more votes than Clinton did in 2016, an increase of 32%.  That's not called 'losing ground'.

Trump's share of the vote increased by 0.4 percentage points.  Biden d
ecreased Clinton's share of the vote by 6.9 percentage points.


Star Tribune, 3/12/2022
Looking ahead to the midterms, the DFL Party is pumping resources into organizing in small towns and cities, and leaders are scrambling to recruit candidates under new redistricting maps who might able to turn the tide in rural Minnesota. 
"We cannot, as the Democratic Party, become the party of the highly educated and folks who live in dense areas," said DFL Party Chairman Ken Martin.  [Please read paragraph 2. "If we are, we are abandoning who we are as a party and vast swaths of this country."


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