Minnesota takes a higher profile in presidential campaign

Iowa gets most of the early presidential buzz, but the 2020 presidential campaigns have come tumbling into Minnesota earlier than ever, a sign of the state's new status as a battleground in the making.

Less than a month after President Donald Trump vowed to carry the state at a Target Center rally in Minneapolis, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is expected to fill up Williams Arena on Sunday night. In August, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren packed a town hall meeting at Macalester College.

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