Donald Trump To Travel To MN During 'Hush Money' Trial Break

ST. PAUL, MN — Former President Donald Trump will spend the break from his New York "hush money" trial campaigning in Minnesota.

Trump is set to speak Friday night at the Minnesota GOP's annual Lincoln-Reagan fundraising dinner in St. Paul.

"A sham trial on trumped up charges won't stop [Donald Trump] from visiting Minnesota on May 17th," wrote Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota, the Majority Whip in the U.S. House. "It's time to turn MN red."

Emmer is backing Trump even after the former president called him a "Globalist RINO" last fall, effectively killing Emmer’s campaign at the time to become Speaker of the House.

Tickets for Friday's dinner start at $500 and go up to $100,000, which would land you at a VIP table for 10 with three photo opportunities with Trump:

$500 - Dinner Ticket: Single seat and access to the general reception.

$2,500 - VIP Individual Ticket: Single VIP dinner seat and access to the VIP reception.

$5,000 - General Table: 10 Dinner Tickets to the general reception.

$15,000 – State Host table for 10 VIP dinner seats at the general reception (2 VIP Reception passes).

$25,000 - Event Host table for 10 VIP dinner seats at the general reception (4 VIP Reception passes, 1 Photo opportunity with President Trump)

$50,000 - Chairman's Host table for 10 VIP dinner seats at the general reception (10 VIP Reception passes, 1 Photo opportunity with President Trump)

$100,000 - Presidential Host table for 10 VIP dinner seats at the general reception (10 VIP Reception passes, 3 Photo opportunities with President Trump)

The dinner coincides with the Minnesota GOP's state convention.

No Republican presidential candidate has won Minnesota's ten electoral votes since Richard Nixon won the state in 1972

However, Trump came close in 2016, falling by just 1.5 percent to Hillary Clinton.

Democrat Joe Biden beat Trump by more than 7 percentage points when he sought a second term.

Reporting from the Associated Press was used in this story.