Reporter Puts Trump on the Spot Over His 2020 Minnesota Vow

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Hauser at one point asked Trump about his speaking engagement and whether it should be interpreted as part of a play for Minnesota in November.
47% : I'm never coming back," Trump told a crowd of supporters in Duluth.
40% : In an interview with a St. Paul, Minnesota reporter that aired a few days before his scheduled appearance Friday at the state GOP Lincoln Day fundraising dinner, former President Donald Trump denied saying that he wouldn't return to the Midwest state if he lost it in 2020 -- but the local ABC affiliate brought the receipts to prove otherwise.KSTP reporter Tom Hauser spoke with Trump over a video call conducted Tuesday before the indicted ex-president went to court to hear testimony from his former lawyer, Michael Cohen.
32% : "Is this a signal that you think you have a realistic chance to win the state of Minnesota in 2024?"Trump denied saying so."Well, I never said I'd never come back.
28% : Nevertheless, Trump obviously did not win Minnesota, as he claimed, but lost convincingly by seven percentage points, or about 230,000 votes.
21% : Hauser said that Trump "appeared to be joking."
13% : In fact, Trump said at a rally that September that he didn't plan on returning to Minnesota if he lost to Joe Biden -- a point that KSTP made by playing that clip.

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