Former President Donald Trump announced his victory on Friday Minnesota in 2020Despite the fact that Democratic presidential candidates have carried the state for more than 40 years.
“I thought we won it in 2016. I thought we won it in 20 — I know we won it in 2020,” he said during a speech at a Minnesota GOP dinner in St. Paul. Trump added: “We have to watch these votes.”
The false claim was the latest in a string of election denials and conspiracy comments by the former president since his 2020 presidential loss.
President Joe Biden won Minnesota 52.4% of the state in 2020, compared to Trump’s 45.3%. The difference between the two candidates was more than 233,000 votes.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Minnesota won Albeit by a narrower margin than Biden in 2016. Clinton got 46.9% of Minnesotans, and Trump got 45.4%.
Democrats have won Minnesota in every presidential election since 1976. In the previous cycle, the state went to Republican Richard Nixon.
During his speech, Trump declared that he will “win this state” in November.
Trump said before “I thought I won easily in 2020,” Minnesota said in an interview published by KSTP on Wednesday. Trump in an interview broadcast on KNSI radio in March he said first “We didn’t quite get it done,” Minnesota in 2020 said, before adding, “I thought we won it last time. Honestly. I think we did.”
James Singer, a spokesman for the Biden campaign, blasted the former president as “clueless about his 2020 loss.”
“In 2020, Joe Biden defeated him by 7 million votes, including more than 230,000 votes in Minnesota – and this November, Joe Biden will defeat him again, because Americans deserve better than a weak, desperate and pathetic loser like Donald Trump. commander,” Singer said in a statement.
Trump made a similar false claim about Wisconsin last month.
“We won this state by a lot. It turns out we won it,” Trump said at the rally.
However, Trump lost the state in 2020 With over 20,000 votes. In 2016, he became the first Republican to win the state since Ronald Reagan in 1984.
Polls show that Biden and Trump remain in a tight race. Moment NBC News survey An April survey found that 44% of registered voters favored Biden and 46% favored Trump.