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Video footage of young couples, children and senior citizens being attacked by masked gangs in dozens of separate incidents, coupled with the attempts of BLM and Antifa to harass Trump supporters inside bars and hotels by yodeling and flashing laser pointers into windows, spurred the Proud Boys into action Saturday evening.

Antifa and BLM did not seem prepared for mutual combat with fighting-age men, and despite outnumbering the Proud Boys they were routed with ease and fled screaming into the night while begging for police protection.

DC: Proud Boys absolutely MOP Antifa with the floor in response to Antifa causing anarchy in the streets attacking Trump Supporters pic.twitter.com/PFbKzlODNO

— Drew Hernandez (@livesmattershow) November 15, 2020

Proud Boys steamroll Antifa militants in DC following violence on Trump supporters. pic.twitter.com/w59lUlnwo7

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) November 15, 2020

One BLM rioter wielding a knife was knocked unconscious for her trouble, and had to be assisted by the police.

A female BLM/ Antifa protester had a switchblade knife that was taken from her after she was knocked out by Proud Boys. pic.twitter.com/i2MHSrHzdi

— Matthew Miller (@mattmiller757) November 15, 2020

Here is a pro Trump marcher taking a knife from an apprehended BLM female protester. pic.twitter.com/8NLwGy6uCC

— Matthew Miller (@mattmiller757) November 15, 2020

When caught without their police escort, things did not go well for Antifa and BLM, as they were beaten by patriots yelling “F**k Antifa!”

ANTIFA not so tough when the police aren’t there to shield them pic.twitter.com/rST6XaIF99

— Savanah Hernandez (@sav_says_) November 15, 2020

Following the brawl, the Proud Boys celebrated with chants of “F**k Antifa” and held aloft a broken skateboard taken from one of the rioters as a trophy.

Proud Boys chant “**** Antifa” while one holds a broken skateboard as a trophy from Antifa #WashingtonDC pic.twitter.com/oxW5mhvTNJ

— Tomas Morales (@TomasMorales_iv) November 15, 2020

Whenever the mutual combat began going south for Antifa, DC Metro police quickly stepped in to break up the fisticuffs.

BLM activists have taken to Twitter to express anguish over members of their movement being slapped around after a full day’s worth of violent attacks on Trump supporters.

Gonna be interesting when the violent thugs of the Proud Boys try their racist **** on BLM and the NFAC (Not ******* Around Coalition) shows up, way outguns and outmans them, and sends their sorry sniveling asses slinking into the night.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI8ljcpApg4[/youtube]

yep, 78 million, counted and valid. Last i heard, as the last ones are tallied, 79 million.

President Trump comfortably carried Chaska, Minn., in 2016. This time, he lost by nine percentage points — a dramatic shift that similarly played out in suburban counties across the country.
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In all, Mr. Trump lost Chaska by nine percentage points — a steep fall from 2016, when he beat Hillary Clinton in that city by six percentage points. And although Mr. Trump captured Carver County, which includes Chaska, he did so by just five percentage points, down from a 14-point margin of victory in 2016.

The shift was so drastic that it helped Mr. Biden easily win Minnesota, by more than 233,000 votes. His performance in Chaska, as well as in other outlying Twin Cities communities, mirrored his success in suburbs across the country, where voters turned out in such significant numbers that they helped fuel Mr. Biden’s rise to the presidency.

Indeed, Mr. Biden improved on Mrs. Clinton’s performance in suburban counties by an average of five percentage points, representing the places with the biggest shift in vote margins from 2016, according to a New York Times analysis. His gains were largest in traditionally Republican strongholds in battleground states, in the suburbs of Phoenix, Dallas, Jacksonville and Atlanta, to name a few.

As was the case nationally, Mr. Trump got more votes in Chaska this year than in his first presidential run. But he also drove thousands of opponents to the polls.

Some residents said they were repulsed by Mr. Trump’s attitude and his divisive rhetoric on race, leading them to vote for Mr. Biden or a third-party candidate.
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A shift in the city’s demographics, too, seems to have given Mr. Biden a boost. More nonwhite families and professionals who used to live in cities — groups that tend to lean more Democratic — have settled in Chaska — population 27,000 — for its affordability and high-performing schools.

And although the occasional acts of vandalism and looting in Minneapolis after the killing of George Floyd in police custody might have stoked some anxiety in Chaska, it did not seem to evoke serious concern, even among Mr. Trump’s supporters. In fact, the main takeaway, some residents said, was not that the country was descending into lawlessness, but that systemic racism was a major problem in America.

Although 83 percent of Chaska’s population is white, its racial and ethnic diversity has slightly grown over the past decade. Latinos make up 8.4 percent, Asians 3.5 percent and Black residents 2.2 percent.

The divisiveness of the Trump era hit close to home, residents said, after a series of racist incidents at Chaska High School and after critics of a new equity program in the school district argued that it would lead to discrimination against white students.

From those racial tensions, residents formed a racial justice group in Chaska, a city of sprawling subdivisions with single-family homes, surrounded by walking trails and lakes.
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Still, when a group of high school students organized a Black Lives Matter protest in Chaska, there was pushback. Some residents warned that it could spiral out of control like demonstrations elsewhere in the country. Some businesses boarded up their windows in the quaint downtown strip of shops and boutiques housed in low-slung brick buildings.

To ease the tensions, Mr. Hughes, who moved to Chaska eight years ago with his wife and four children for the schools, told residents he would patrol the community during the protest. The protest was peaceful, which helped people to see that Mr. Trump’s law-and-order concerns were overblown.

“I think the voices that we had here just spoke loud enough to combat that,” Mr. Hughes said.

In many ways, the hard left turn in Chaska — and the higher Democratic turnout in Carver County — stemmed from yearslong efforts by local Democrats to increase their visibility in a deeply Republican territory.

When Mary Leizinger became the chair of the Carver County Democrats four years ago, she saw an opportunity to gain support in the eastern part of the county, which is more developed and closer to the Twin Cities relative to the rural western part.

Ms. Leizinger said she focused heavily on combating misinformation on Facebook by posting reputable news articles to the county party’s page. She increased participation of county Democratic party members in community festivals and parades, carrying large banners bearing the party’s name and signs that addressed specific issues.

“Five or 10 years ago, we’d walk in the parades and it would be stone-cold faces,” Ms. Leizinger, 63, said. But last summer, they marched with signs denouncing the Trump administration’s child separation policy at the Mexican border “and got standing ovations,” she said.

The party also bought space on five billboards in the western part of the county and plastered them with messages attacking Mr. Trump and urging people to vote Democratic.

In some ways, Mr. Trump was his own worst enemy.

You know goddamn well they would.

I WON THE ELECTION!