WASHINGTON (SPECTRUM NEWS) — Donald Trump is eyeing a midwest sweep in 2020 after hosting a campaign rally in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Thursday.

“We are going to win the great state of Minnesota in 2020,” said Pres. Trump during the rally.

Larry Jacobs, a political science professor at the University of Minnesota, says flipping the state is at the top of the president's list. 

“Minnesota is a state where you get what you put in and we’re already seeing the Trump campaign putting resources and time a number of times already,” said Jacobs.

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton seemingly took Minnesota for granted in the last presidential election.

Both made scarce appearances in the state and it showed at the 2016 polls.

While Clinton beat Trump by nearly 45,000 votes, the number of ballots cast for her is telling.

She secured about 178,000 fewer votes in the state than Barack Obama did in 2012.

“You see this pattern of a drop off in the number of votes for the Clinton campaign compared to the Obama campaigns in other states,” said Jacobs. “It had to do with the kind of campaign she ran and the kind of organization she built.”

Prof Jacobs says the idea of the “blue wall” is part of the reason both campaigns didn’t consider Minnesota a factor in the election.

18 states have reliably voted blue in presidential elections since 1992 (and they’re known as the blue wall) but three of them flipped for Trump in 2016.

Two out of the three were Midwest states but Minnesota was a holdout.

But that doesn’t mean it will always be a holdout.

“Donald Trump has a chance and those who assume that Minnesota is a lock for Democrats are making the same mistake they made in 2016 with regard to the blue wall.”