President Donald Trump again proved to have the overwhelming support of Lonsdale and its surrounding communities Super Tuesday.
Minnesota recently switched back to a caucus-primary-hybrid model, wherein caucuses still exist for local party appointments and resolutions and primaries serve to narrow down the candidates running for congress, the presidency and other major races. Tuesday was the sixth time in Minnesota history and the second time this century that presidential delegates have been chosen via a primary.
While surrounding townships gave a slightly bigger percentage of its Republican support to Nikki Haley, who dropped out following a number of defeats Tuesday, all four of the precincts around Lonsdale still gave the majority of Republican votes to Trump.
Meanwhile, President Joe Biden earned less than three-fourths of the Democratic support. However, the Republican stronghold’s Democratic minority still supported Biden more than the county as a whole.
Rice County is a uniquely independent county in one of the most uniquely independent states, a fact that led to some interesting results to come out of the latest state to rejoin the conversation on Super Tuesday.
President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden won the Rice County nomination with 2,987 and 2,033 votes, respectively. However, Rice County gave less than three-fourths of its major-party votes to Biden and Trump.
The presidential primary saw low turnout for the politically active county, which some election judges predict had to do with the lack of consequential choices.
Rice County was actually 1 of 4 counties in the state and the only non-metro county to give less than 70% of its Democratic votes to Biden, instead opting to remain uncommitted or support Minnesotan candidate Dean Phillips, who also dropped out after Super Tuesday.
The Abandon Biden push to vote uncommitted in protest of unconditional aid to Israel was far more successful in Minnesota than any state so far, providing 11 of the nation’s 13 uncommitted delegates so far.
Rather than following the metro minority, Rice County Republicans held firm to their rural Republican values. Meanwhile, the metro counties, Blue Earth County and Olmsted County all gave less than 70% of their Republican support to Trump.
Lonsdale had three voters who chose to stand with the Legal Marijuana Now party.
The next time voters head to the polls is the state primary on Aug. 13. Then, the general election is on Nov. 5.
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