Trump and Biden vie for Minnesota on Friday, hosting dueling events with just days to go

President Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Friday will again overlap on the campaign trail, host rallies in battleground Minnesota.

With just four days left until the election, the Trump campaign thinks it has a chance of winning in Minnesota, which no Republican presidential candidate has won since Richard Nixon won in 1972. 

The president in 2016 narrowly lost Minnesota and its 10 Electoral College votes.

The Trump Victory campaign has focused on Minnesota as a tangible target this election cycle. State polls show Biden still hold a single-digit advantage over Trump, despite the president having gained ground over the past few weeks. 

Trump's 5 p.m. rally will be scaled-down significantly from his typical rally-size, due to coronavirus-related restrictions imposed by the state's primarily Democratic leaders.

On Thursday night, the president tweeted "thanks to the free speech-stifling dictates of Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney Gen. Keith Ellison, only the first 250 people will be admitted." 

Biden will host a drive-in car rally in St. Paul at 3:30 p.m. This is the former vice president's second campaign stop in Minnesota since officially becoming the party's nominee in August. 

Trump has visited the state four times this cycle, saying in early October to a crowd in Duluth, "If I lose Minnesota, I'm never coming back."

Prior to landing in Minnesota, Biden will campaign in Iowa on Friday, and following his St. Paul stop, he will head to Wisconsin. 

Trump will also campaign in Wisconsin on Friday, holding a rally in Green Bay at 3 p.m. following an early afternoon rally in Michigan. This will be the president's second swing through Michigan and Wisconsin this week, as he attempts to secure victory once again in the states he won in 2016 over Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. 

Over the weekend, the president will make closing arguments in Pennsylvania, a state he narrowly won in 2016.