MINNEAPOLIS – Former President Donald Trump is expanding his ground game in Minnesota.
In a memo obtained by CBS NewsHis campaign is reportedly working to secure leases for eight “Trump Force 47” offices in Minnesota. They have also hired new staff to manage the ground game in the state.
The latest poll from Emerson College shows President Biden and Trump tied at 45% in Minnesota.
Democratic Gov. Walz told CBS News last week that he doubts the Trump campaign’s claims that Minnesota could turn red in November.
“Donald Trump says a lot of things that are not true,” Walz said. “He still claims he won here in 2016 and 2020 and that is not true.”
Minnesota Congressman Dean Phillips, DFL-Plymouth, disagreed with the governor in an interview with CBS News.
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“Turnout will matter. I think Trump is right,” Phillips said. “And spending time in Minnesota will only help him.”
Phillips recently announced that he will not seek re-election to his Third District seat afterward his failed presidential primaries against Biden.
A Republican presidential candidate has not won in Minnesota since 1972.
Trump’s campaign is also investing in offices in New Jersey and Virginia. A spokesperson for the Biden campaign told CBS News: “If Trump wants to spend his time and money campaigning in the blue states, then be our guest.”
Trump told reporters at a campaign event in Philadelphia on Saturday that he has decided who his running mate will be, but has yet to tell anyone who that is.
