Updated: 5:08 p.m.
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden will be in Minnesota on Friday — the same day as President Donald Trump is slated to hold a rally in the state.
The former vice president has announced a drive-in rally in St. Paul in the afternoon, which would be his second visit to the battleground state this campaign.
Trump’s Friday rally in southern Minnesota was originally set for the Rochester International Airport but then moved to a private company site in Dodge Center, Minn., McNeilus Steel. By late afternoon Thursday, however, that plan was off the table, too.
Glenn Sylvester, the company’s chief operating officer, had said earlier in the day that he expected several thousand to attend but wouldn't say if the company would cap the event at 250 people as state rules require. In an email to McNeilus staff, though, Sylvester wrote that the company expected 25,000 people to attend.
Later Thursday, Minnesota GOP Party Chair Jennifer Carnahan said she expected the rally to be back at the Rochester airport with an invitation-only crowd rather than a general admission event.
She accused DFLers Gov. Tim Walz and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison of “playing games with the campaign and denying people’s free right to go and hear from their president four days from the election … We do not live in a world run by tyrannical power leaders."
A Walz spokesperson said the governor’s office had not communicated with the Trump campaign during the day.
An Ellison spokesperson said the attorney general’s office asked McNeilus Steel for a preparedness plan Thursday morning and never heard back. "We did not cancel the event. We have no authority to cancel the event," said John Stiles.
When the Rochester airport was first chosen, Rochester Mayor Kim Norton said the city had been in negotiations with the Trump campaign to sign a contract to adhere to the 250 person limit at the airport.
But a day before the event, Norton said she understood the campaign was looking for a venue that would allow a larger crowd.
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