

In 2018, Democrats improved enough in the Iron Range and the Twin Burbs that a GOP win was impossible. But Democrats have engaged more seriously, too, coaxing Joe Biden into a visit this week, when early voting begins. That’s a shift from 2016, when both parties were surprised by what Trump’s ad hoc effort almost pulled off. Trump’s party has acted on that analysis, investing the same sort of ground game and ad resources in Minnesota that it has in places like Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

“We came this close from winning this,” Trump said during a 2018 visit to Duluth, a frustrated take he’d deliver again and again, arguing that a little more campaigning would have flipped the state. Republicans didn’t get so close again until 2016, when Donald Trump lost Minnesota by 44,593 votes. Bush came within three points of winning the state. Sixteen years later, with Ralph Nader peeling votes away from Al Gore, George W.

Ronald Reagan came 3,761 votes away from carrying it in 1984, with Walter Mondale’s hometown advantage probably costing him a 50-state sweep. Indira Gandhi, on her death anniversary,” the Congress said in its tweet.For Republicans, Minnesota has long been the one that got away. A billion salutes to the Iron Lady of India, our very first woman Prime Minister, a true Bharat Ratna, Smt. The Congress, in a tweet from its official Twitter handle, also lauded the former prime minister’s contribution to the country. Indira Gandhi on her martyrdom day,” he said.

”A great example of women power, humble tributes to Mrs. ”My grandmother served the country fearlessly till the last moment - her life is a source of inspiration for us,” Rahul Gandhi said in a tweet in Hindi. Indira Gandhi, the then prime minister, was assassinated on this day in 1984 by two of her own security guards. Rahul Gandhi paid floral tributes to Indira Gandhi at her memorial ”Shakti Sthal” here. New Delhi: The Congress on Sunday paid tributes to former prime minister Indira Gandhi on her death anniversary, with former party chief Rahul Gandhi hailing her as a great example of women power. Iron Lady of India’: Cong pays tributes to Indira Gandhi on death anniversary
