Trump Targets Minnesota In Re-election Campaign: Watch Livestream

MANKATO, MN — President Donald Trump is set to rally Monday with supporters in southern Minnesota as he seeks re-election. Trump narrowly lost Minnesota — a reliably blue state in past presidential elections — in 2016 and has said he hopes to win the state in 2020.

State Republicans, who are hoping to "flip Minnesota red" in November, will welcome the president for his fifth visit to the Land of 10,000 Lakes since he took office.

Trump will fly to the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport on Monday, where his motorcade will take him to Mankato Regional Airport for a 2 p.m. rally.

"Over the last four-years President Trump has made great strides for our country," Republican Party of Minnesota Chairwoman Jennifer Carnahan said in a statement.

"Southern Minnesota stood strongly with the President in 2016 and we know they will stand with him for another four years."

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Minnesota Democrats currently fill all statewide offices, including both Senate seats, the attorney general and the governorship. However, there are signs that Republicans are poised to make gains in the state this fall.

"Team Trump is truly going for a win here so they must have internals that show the race closer than, say, in Michigan," Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party operative Jeff Blodgett recently told the Minnesota Reformer.

"Nationally, people falsely assume MN is in the bag."

A recent Emerson poll shows Joe Biden only up 50-47 in Minnesota, which is "too close for comfort," Blodgett said. Even if Trump loses in Minnesota, Blodgett said, he could boost turnout that helps down-ticket Republicans win their races.

On Monday, Trump attacked local officials for not calling in the National Guard sooner during the violent protests that broke out after the death of George Floyd.

The last time Trump visited Minnesota, he sparred with Minneapolis' progressive mayor, Jacob Frey, over Twitter.