Thomas Beaumont
In this March 8, 2021, photo, Jaci Jageson talks with her husband Larry Lageson on the porch of their home in Mankato, Minn. The retired couple's precinct is one of several in the small, Midwestern city where heavy support for Joe Biden last year helped the Democrat carry Blue Earth County, where Republican Donald Trump won in 2016. (AP Photo/Tom Beaumont)
March 13, 2021 - 5:30 AM
MANKATO, Minn. - Mary McGaw grew up in a Republican home on the rural prairie of south central Minnesota. But as she moved from her tiny town of Amboy to the nearest city of Mankato to study nursing, her politics migrated too.