Trump has 200 million banked to blow on anything he wants. Dont tell me we can't take PAC money.

I know the area; it's very scenic and geologically interesting, but there are a few spots in them thar hills where they could have filmed Deliverance, complete with all the extras they needed. I'd expect there to be some Trumpers in the area.

I knew a lawyer who did a lot of family and mental commitment law in the area; that's how he described what he was dealing with. For a "blue" state, Minnesota definitely has its share of Trumpist enclaves.

but it always seems so odd to me that the district that is home to the Mayo Clinic is also home to so many knuckle dragging members of the science denying Trump cult.

Though it's also home to the Federal Medical Center where Jim Bakker spent his time. Perhaps Trump will sent there eventually - his cult can visit him then.

https://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/rch/

Winona and Mankato are college towns but besides those cities and Rochester it’s pretty rural. Same urban/rural divide as elsewhere, I guess.

and the DFL did pretty well ithere in 2018. Dan Feehan beat Hagedorn by over 12% in the Congressional race.

The DFL won all the statewide offices in the county except the AG race and even in that Ellison only lost by about .2% (yes, point 2). The state house races were more of a mixed bag; 2 DFLers, 2 Republicans.

Maybe there's hope for the area.

https://electionresults.sos.state.mn.us/Results/FedStatebyCounty/115?districtid=55

really close by; I get to look at it whenever I leave my front door. Must really kill any sunlight inside the place. The whole condo complex actually creeps me out. It's right off the golf club's entrance drive. There's little traffic in or out of the drive as opposed to our apt complex drives that are busy night and day; no one uses the pool--on the hottest or loveliest summer days - not one, and I've been here a long time. Never saw a kid or a dog walker or a delivery vehicle coming or going. We laugh that all the residents are bedridden zombies, and the nurse lives in the 2nd bedroom and goes out once every three months to get their scripts or their mail from their PO box because, hey, who needs food that doesn't involve an IV.