{"id":2596,"date":"2020-10-25T14:32:58","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T14:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=2596"},"modified":"2020-10-27T14:34:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T14:34:49","slug":"dr-rubrick-biegon-primary-primers-biden-and-trump-go-big-for-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2020\/10\/25\/dr-rubrick-biegon-primary-primers-biden-and-trump-go-big-for-minnesota\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Rubrick Biegon &#8211; Primary Primers: Biden and Trump go big for Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a Midwestern state with ten electoral votes, Minnesota is often seen as a key battleground in the 2020 presidential election. But, writes\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/505\/biegon-rubrick\"><strong>Rubrick Biegon<\/strong><\/a>, barring any \u2018October surprises\u2019, the North Star State is very likely to vote for the former Vice President, Democrat Joe Biden on 3 November. How President Trump and Biden are campaigning in Minnesota, he writes, tells us more about the challenges facing both candidates, rather than that the state is an electoral tipping point.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read the full article written for LSE US Centre here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lse.ac.uk\/usappblog\/2020\/10\/02\/primary-primers-biden-and-trump-go-big-for-minnesota-a-state-which-may-matter-less-than-they-think\/\">https:\/\/blogs.lse.ac.uk\/usappblog\/2020\/10\/02\/primary-primers-biden-and-trump-go-big-for-minnesota-a-state-which-may-matter-less-than-they-think\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a Midwestern state with ten electoral votes, Minnesota is often seen as a key battleground in the 2020 presidential election. But, writes\u00a0Rubrick Biegon, barring &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2020\/10\/25\/dr-rubrick-biegon-primary-primers-biden-and-trump-go-big-for-minnesota\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67700,"featured_media":2597,"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\/2596"}],"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=2596"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2631,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596\/revisions\/2631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}