Will go a bit more granular on this in a bit as there is a lot of movement going on under the hood here, but #HD35A in the north metro has as a whole seen a pretty flat trend. The district shifted ~2 points towards Trump from 2012, but shifted 6.6 points towards Biden from 2016. 
Smith slid back a bit from her 2018 performance, though Lewis failed to crack 50% in 2020 just as Housley failed to do in 2018. Klobuchar's suburban strength helped her hold onto the district in 2018.
The GOP incumbent in #HD35A improved over 2018, though the DFL maintained a tighter margin in the district than 2014 or 2016.
One of the two cities in the district, Anoka, is an Obama/Obama/Trump/Biden city. It swung 7.4 pints back to Biden in 2020 after swinging 10 points towards Trump in 2016.
Before Obama, the city voted for Bush in 2004 after voting for Gore in 2000 and Bill Clinton in 92 and 96.
Quite a bit more red is the growing city of Ramsey. It's pretty red for a city of nearly 28,000 within the 7-county metro. If the GOP wants to continue winning Anoka County, they need to keep winning Ramsey by solid margins.
Clinton did carry the city twice, though 1992 was pretty close to being a 3-way tie with Perot pulling 31% of the vote. All Ramsey precincts in 1992 ranged pretty narrowly between Clinton +2.8 to Clinton +4.7
In 1992 when Clinton narrowly carried Ramsey, the city only cast 6,691 votes for President. In 2020, the city cast 16,430 votes for President. Since the 1990 Census, the city has grown from 12,408 residents to 27,721 residents as of the 2019 estimate.
While #HD35A shifted a hair right from 2012 despite shifting left from 2016, #HD35B shifted left 5.9 points from 2012 and 8.5 points from 2016. The district is comprised of a sliver the cities of Coon Rapids, Ramsey and Andover.
The State House race in #HD35B has remained pretty solidly Republican, though you can see a shift left overall (though the district ticked back right in 2020 after a relatively strong 2018 performance)
As a fun exercise, if you split #SD35 into two HD's right now of roughly equal number of ballots cast in 2020 (this one is 26,135 and the other would be 25,259), you could create a pretty competitive hypothetical #HD35A that would have been only Trump +2 instead of Trump +9.
That one takes the Coon Rapids slice and one Andover precinct from HD35B and subtracts some of the more portions of Ramsey. For the record, the other hypothetical HD would be Trump +17.6 instead of Trump +10.4
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