{"id":1783,"date":"2020-05-20T12:19:55","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T12:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=1783"},"modified":"2020-05-21T12:21:38","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T12:21:38","slug":"dr-rubrick-biegon-discusses-why-minnesota-is-and-isnt-a-swing-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2020\/05\/20\/dr-rubrick-biegon-discusses-why-minnesota-is-and-isnt-a-swing-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Rubrick Biegon discusses &#8216;Why Minnesota is \u2013 and isn\u2019t \u2013 a swing state&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Dr Rubrick Biegon discusses Donald Trump\u2019s chances in Minnesota in the US election for the The LSE US Centre\u2019s daily blog on American Politics and Policy.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump very nearly won in Minnesota, only missing out by 45,000 votes in the state. <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3I2YF-9U8#Author\">Rubrick\u00a0Biegon<\/a>\u00a0takes a close look at whether Minnesota should now\u00a0be considered to be\u00a0a swing state. He writes that despite Trump\u2019s\u00a0recent\u00a0appeals there, the North Star State\u2019s progressive\u00a0history\u00a0and present may make a\u00a0victory\u00a0for him\u00a0very difficult this fall.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article at <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lse.ac.uk\/usappblog\/2020\/05\/01\/primary-primers-why-minnesota-is-and-isnt-a-swing-state\/\">https:\/\/blogs.lse.ac.uk\/usappblog\/2020\/05\/01\/primary-primers-why-minnesota-is-and-isnt-a-swing-state\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Rubrick Biegon discusses Donald Trump\u2019s chances in Minnesota in the US election for the The LSE US Centre\u2019s daily blog on American Politics and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2020\/05\/20\/dr-rubrick-biegon-discusses-why-minnesota-is-and-isnt-a-swing-state\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67700,"featured_media":1785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[807,131000,131002,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67700"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1783"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1792,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions\/1792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}