Philippines to Vigorously Defend Territory, President Says

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

72% : Tickets started at $500, ranging up to $100,000 for a VIP table for 10 with three photo opportunities with Trump.
54% : Trump's youngest son, Barron Trump, graduated Friday morning from the private Oxbridge Academy in West Palm Beach, Florida.
53% : "I think this is something Trump wants to do.
50% : Trump was using part of the day granted by the trial judge for the graduation to campaign in Minnesota, a state he argues he can win in the November rematch with Biden.
48% : Trump returned to Minnesota several times in 2020, when Biden beat him by more than 7 percentage points.
47% : Trump took the stage late as he headlined the state GOP's annual Lincoln Reagan dinner in St. Paul after attending his son Barron's high school graduation in Florida.
44% : Declaring his appearance to be "an official expansion" of the electoral map of states that could be competitive in November, Trump said, "We're going to win this state.""This November the people of Minnesota are going to tell Crooked Joe Biden -- right? '
43% : Trump boasted that the steep tariffs he imposed on foreign steel while serving as president bought the Iron Range, the iron mining area of northeastern Minnesota, "roaring back to life."
43% : The former president, who attended the graduation with his wife, Melania Trump, and her father, Viktor Knavs, had long complained Judge Juan M. Merchan would not let him attend the graduation before Merchan agreed not to hold court Friday.
39% : Trump on Friday night repeated a false claim that he won Minnesota in the 2020 election, wrongly declaring he won "a landslide in your state.
36% : Trump said, referencing his former reality television show and the catchphrase he used on it.
32% : The dinner coincided with the party's state convention and the roughly 1,400 attendees included former US Sen. Rudy Boschwitz and MyPillow founder Mike Lindell, who has been a prominent promoter of false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump.
26% : "No sham trial is going to keep President Trump off the campaign trail.
25% : No Republican presidential candidate has won Minnesota since Richard Nixon in 1972, but Trump came close to flipping the state in 2016, when he fell 1.5 percentage points short of Democrat Hillary Clinton.
9% : He also made a profane attack on President Joe Biden, calling him "a horrible president" who is "destroying our country" and then adding, "He's a horrible human being too."Trump then shifted to calling the president a "non-athlete" and attacked his golf game, accusing him of inflating his golfing abilities and making other misrepresentations before using an expletive that drew loud laughs and sustained applause.

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