Domenico Montanaro

You suddenly have the Republican candidate saying yes.

You know what?

Republican can't win.

Yeah.

And I have to say about Minneapolis in particular, you know, it's a place with a highly educated population.

You have a lot of activism and it, you know, they have among the highest voter turnout rates in the country.

Minnesota in general does.

So this is a very active and engaged community.

And, you know, when you have that plus being led by Democrats in general and the Trump administration kind of going after blue states and because Tim Walz, who

ran on the Democratic ticket as vice president in 2024, you have this perfect storm.

Well, I think that's to your point.

In general, we're seeing that across the country with how Trump conducts himself in, you know, whether it's the leverage he wants over universities or journalists.

He'll take one thing, federal funding for medical research, for example, and say he's going to withhold that if, say, Harvard or some other school doesn't reduce its DEI hires, diversity, equity, and inclusion.

So we've seen that where they've done that.

And when we look at whether or not this is strictly about immigration, it doesn't appear to be because Attorney General Pam Bondi

sent a letter to Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota detailing a list of demands, and that included turning over the state's voter rolls as one of the things that would be needed or wanted from the Trump administration in exchange for taking federal agents out of the state.

You know, that raises a lot of questions about whether this really has to do strictly with

with immigration or if it's about furthering Trump's goals and agenda like we've seen him do with private institutions.

And remember, elections in this country are decentralized for a reason.

Each state runs their own elections, whether you have a Republican or a Democrat running the election processes in those states, the secretaries of state.