Trump woos Minnesotans at annual GOP fundraiser

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Trump's youngest son, Barron Trump, graduated Friday morning from the private Oxbridge Academy in West Palm Beach, Fla.
54% : (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, standing right with Melania Trump and her father, Viktor Knavs, attends a graduation ceremony for his son Barron at Oxbridge Academy Friday, May 17, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)People sit for dinner before Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at the Minnesota Republican Lincoln Reagan Dinner Friday, May 17, 2024, at the Saint Paul RiverCentre in St. Paul, Minn.
54% : (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, standing right with Melania Trump and her father, Viktor Knavs, attends a graduation ceremony for his son Barron at Oxbridge Academy Friday, May 17, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, seated right with Melania Trump and her father, Viktor Knavs, attends a graduation ceremony for his son Barron at Oxbridge Academy Friday, May 17, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
53% : "I think this is something Trump wants to do.
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.
45% : Trump was using part of the day off 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.
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."
41% : The former president, who attended the graduation with his wife, Melania Trump, and her father, Viktor Knavs, had long complained that Judge Juan M. Merchan would not let him attend the graduation before Merchan agreed not to hold court Friday.
36% : Trump said, referencing his former reality television show and the catchphrase he used on it.
33% : The dinner coincided with the party's state convention and the roughly 1,400 attendees included former U.S. Sen. Rudy Boschwitz and MyPillow founder Mike Lindell, who has been a prominent promoter of claims that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump.
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.

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