Don­ald Trump attends Barron’s grad­u­a­tion before head­ing to fundrais­er

For­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump will head to Min­neso­ta on a day off from his hush mon­ey tri­al for a Repub­li­can fundrais­er Fri­day night in a tra­di­tion­al­ly Demo­c­ra­t­ic state that he boasts he can car­ry in Novem­ber.
Trump will head­line the state GOP’s annu­al Lin­coln Rea­gan din­ner, which coin­cides with the party’s state con­ven­tion, after attend­ing his son Barron’s high school grad­u­a­tion in Flori­da. Trump attend­ed the grad­u­a­tion Fri­day morn­ing with his wife, Mela­nia Trump, and her father, Vik­tor Knavs.Trump will use part of the day grant­ed by the tri­al judge for the grad­u­a­tion to cam­paign in Min­neso­ta, a state he argues he can win in the Novem­ber rematch with Pres­i­dent Joe Biden. No Repub­li­can pres­i­den­tial can­di­date has won Min­neso­ta since Richard Nixon in 1972, but Trump came close to flip­ping the state in 2016, when he fell 1.5 per­cent­age points short of Demo­c­rat Hillary Clinton.Trump returned to Minn …