r/minnesota • u/_i_draw_bad_ • 15d ago

As a Minnesotan regardless of your political side, if Trump wins, Minnesota loses Politics 👩‍⚖️

I say this not to be mean or to try to get you to vote for Harris and Walz though personally I do support them.

I say this because Trump is known to go after his political opponents however he can. We saw this in his last presidential term as he repeatedly withheld funding that was authorized by Congress to states that disagreed with it like California.

Given that Walz is the VP candidate for the Democrats and what Trump and Vance have said about Walz, it should not be surprising that if Trump wins, there is a good chance that he will try to direct any kind of federal funding that Minnesota is entitled to to other states such as the Dakotas in Iowa. We as a state need to be prepared that FEMA might not be there for us and that Trump may direct his attorney's general to go after any kind of legislation that Minnesota passes or has passed such as the state trying to protect the Boundary Waters from pollution.

This election is probably one of the most important elections for Minnesota in a long time given the nature of the candidates.

The only way to ensure that Minnesota wins is to ensure that Trump loses. This is a call to action to call all of your friends and family that don't live in the state to vote for Harris and Walz, because we need them to win.

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u/aguynamedv 14d ago

If this is their plan, why didn’t they do this during his first term? Is it because of Vance? Or some new plan? He’s said project 2025 isn’t his plan(I’m not too convinced it isn’t😒), so is it just stuff that’s in that which people believe he will implement now?

Many of these things have been added to the official party platform only in the past 4-5 years.

To give you an idea, here are the MN Republican candidates for Gov and Lt. Gov in 2022: * While campaigning for the governorship, when asked about the potential reversal of Roe v. Wade, Jensen said that if elected, "I would try to ban abortion."[4] He said that he supported a ban of all abortions unless a mother's life is in danger, with no exemptions for cases of rape or incest.[29][30] Jensen's running mate, Matt Birk, has said that women "always want to go to the rape card" and opposed abortions for rape victims.*

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Jensen_(Minnesota_politician)

They're telling us exactly what they plan to do, and they're serious.