In July, as he threatened widespread immigration raids, President Donald Trump took aim at Minnesota U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar and three other minority congresswomen by casting aspersions on the left-leaning urban districts they represent:
“Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came,” Trump tweeted.
On Thursday, Trump will bring one of his signature rallies to downtown Minneapolis, ground zero of Omar’s district, where the urban-rural divide underlying his attack will be on full display. Following an intensifying strategy of campaigning against big cities and the Democrats who lead them, Trump is expected to highlight many of the same problems he pointed to this summer when he portrayed Baltimore as a crime-ridden city where residents are “living in hell.”
View the complete October 7 article by Torey Van Oort on The Star Tribune website here.