I can't see Ellison as MN Governor, but MN is more liberal than lots of folks realize, and which was obscured by what I consider flukish returns from 2016.
Along with rural resentment, it'd be easy to paint Ellison as a big city liberal who is out of touch with Greater MN.
As the 2016 race showed us, Minnesota is one of the few states in which the Democrat can win by not doing much more than just running it up in the urban areas. On top of that, it's hard for me to imagine Ellison doing worse than Clinton in rural MN; she was uniquely awful for the region.
