ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota state Republican chair, David Hann, glommed on a subset of data in a new poll that the level of enthusiasm among voters for GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump is twice that for President Biden. The results showed Biden winning 45% to 41% if the election were now, but Hann sees Biden in trouble based on voter enthusiasm. “The Democrats clearly have a significant division going on within their party,” Hann said, “The split over support for Israel has really, I think, affected the coalition that Democrats have tried to put together. And I think there’s a lot of people that are very dissatisfied with President Biden’s response on that.” Hann acknowledged that Trump’s recent conviction on 32 felony counts for fraud renders him less than a perfect candidate, but, he added, the conviction hasn’t much affected Republican-leaning voters.
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Hann. State GOP chair since 2021. Former two-term state senator from Eden Prairie and Mnnetonka.