1-No one really cares about this except legislative insider types.
2-Trump doesn't know about this either and if he does a campaign rally here raving about that he'd be seen as just raving about things no one really finds engaging.
3-Bakk's district is heavily based around Duluth suburbs and the rural parts of NE Minnesota Hillary won, (Lake and Cook counties.) It even narrowly voted for Hillary as a whole.
4-Tina Smith and Tim Walz did roughly equal in both Bakk and Kent's seats.
5-I really hope the MN GOP makes this their #1 campaign issue in 2020, it's vaguely reminiscent of 2018's "rave constantly about Keith Ellison and claim every statewide Democratic candidate is him."
Exactly!
And noting your last point I must ask... can the GOP win anything statewide in Minnesota, besides possibly a Presidential contest, if even Keith Ellison won?