Minnesota's primaries are on tap for August 11, and polls show that voters in the Land of a Thousand Lakes are not apparently going to change course.
However, Max Rymer, a Republican state representative who represents Minnesota's House District 28B, believes there is hope for the state to turn around.
"If I have any hope that things can change here, it's this — it's that people have finally woken up to what is happening in Minnesota,” says Rymer. “I think that for a lot of people who may have voted Democrat in the past, they're willing to take a trial run with Republicans this time around because the state has gotten in such bad shape."
In the U.S. Senate race, former sportscaster Michelle Tafoya is leading by a substantial margin in GOP primary polls. However, against the Democrat primary candidates, Angie Craig and Peggy Flanagan, Tafoya was polled to be behind both.
"Whoever comes out in that primary in August is going to have a real shot at winning that U.S. Senate seat. Reason being is because we have a really radical lieutenant governor named Peggy Flanagan who's also running for that seat, who oversaw all the fraud and celebrated, frankly, the anti-law enforcement sentiment in Minnesota,” states Rymer. “So that's a winnable seat."
Rymer is not optimistic, however, about the race for governor, where polls show Democrat Amy Klobuchar trouncing Republican Mike Lindell, founder and CEO of My Pillow. According to Real Clear Polling, Klobuchar is up 19.7 percentage point than Lindell, her polling at 52.7% and him at 33%.
"There's a very realistic chance that he gets the nomination in August. When I look at the landscape here in Minnesota, if we're going to win, it's got to be pulling some Democrats over, pulling a lot of Independents over, and I'm not sure that he's going to be able to do that if he gets the nomination,” Rymer says.
