Deep blue Minnesota is fed up with fraud and may derail Dems midterm dreams

A state that hasn’t delivered its electoral votes to a Republican presidential candidate since 1972 is bucking the prevailing national political winds and contemplating a change after years of progressive mismanagement.Yes, Minnesota may have some regrets.Much has been made of the impending Blue Wave that’s sure to deliver Democrats control of the House, could make Chuck Schumer the Senate’s new majority leader and will in all likelihood render Donald Trump impotent in the final two years of his presidency.Democrats are not only counting their chickens in battleground states like Georgia, North Carolina and Michigan, but dreaming big in red strongholds like Iowa, Kansas, Texas and South Carolina.But perhaps they should be looking in their own backyard: Republicans playing offense in the Land of 10,000 Lakes.“What we’re seeing is a kind of tug of war between what’s happening in Minnesota and what’s happening nationally,” said John Hinderaker, the founder of Power Line and president of the Center of the American Experiment, a prominent conservative think tank in the North Star State.One recent survey conducted by his organization found that 58% of respondents believe Minnesota is on the wrong track; just 37% say it’s on the right one.“Minnesotans are fundamentally unhappy with how things have been going in our state.There are several reasons for that, but clearly No.

1 is fraud,” Hinderaker told The Post.Democrats and their forever allies in the media have downplayed the sweeping fraud scandal that eventually compelled Gov.Tim Walz not to run for a third term, but the taxpaying victims remain irate.“Nobody in Minnesota thinks it’s a minor thing .

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I mean, it’s billions of dollars and it’s brazen,” observed Hinderaker, who pointed not only to the the fake charity Feeding Our Future, but the massive investigation into Medicaid fraud in the state.Sen.Amy Klobuchar, the Democrat running to succeed Walz as governor, knows just how big ...