“Now please understand this, we love our brothers and sisters who are Democrats, but you left us.”
In a stunning development this weekend, a group of Somali leaders in Minnesota held a press conference and endorsed Donald Trump for president. Minnesota has the largest Somali community in the country.
The speakers at the press conference cite the same issues that we have heard from every corner of the country, including crippling inflation, freedom of speech, and failing schools.
Minnesota has not gone red in a presidential election since Nixon in 1972, so the chances of that happening again are slim, but that does not take away from the gravity of this endorsement.
Ward Clark of RedState provides a couple of key quotes from the speakers:
Most importantly, the left left us. 33 percent of our kids cannot read – cannot read at grade level. Minnesota in education? We are failing in every standard. 8th graders – 60 percent cannot do math at grade …