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Walz calls Sept. 16 special election to fill slain lawmaker Rep. Melissa Hortman’s seat
Brooklyn Park voters will vote to fill the vacant seat of Rep. Melissa Hortman, who was killed last month in a politically motivated assassination.
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Brooklyn Park DFLers launch campaigns to fill seat left vacant after former Speaker Melissa Hortman’s killing
Candidates have until July 22 to file for office in the special election for House District 34B in the Brooklyn Park area.
Tim Walz’s South Dakota visit focuses on hope for Dems, ‘petty’ jabs for Noem, Rhoden
Kristi Noem, former South Dakota governor, now-secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, whom Walz worked alongside while both served in the U.S. House of Representatives, was his first target. Walz joked it would be "really tough" to make the trip to South Dakota because he "had to decide what [he] was going to wear."
Gov. Tim Walz bullish about re-election chances: ‘If we run again, we will win.’
Gov. Tim Walz on Monday gave his strongest signal yet that he intends to seek a third consecutive term next year, confidently predicting he will win if he runs again and warning possible challengers they’d face the “best fundraiser that ever sat in this office.
Walz announces special election to fill seat of slain Minnesota Democrat
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) on Friday announced a special election to fill a state House seat left vacant after the assassination of state Rep. Melissa Hortman (D). The special election will be held Sept.
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Gov. Walz Announces Special Election to Fill Late Speaker Hortman’s Seat
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz issued a writ of special election to fill the vacancy left by the death of Speaker Melissa Hortman. That announcement was made on Friday, July 11. The special election will be held on Tuesday,
Gov. Tim Walz calls special election for Melissa Hortman’s House seat
Hortman represented House District 34B, a district that includes Brooklyn Park, as well as parts of Champlin and Coon Rapids.
‘Who’s got next?’ Democrats already lining up for 2028 presidential race in early voting states
The voters in early presidential nominating states are used to seeing contenders months or even years before most of the country.
‘Overly ambitious’: New book about the 2024 election details why Kamala Harris passed over Gov. Josh Shapiro for VP
How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America," details how close Shapiro came to being Harris’ running mate.
Harris ‘went with her gut’ to select Tim Walz as running mate after ‘overly ambitious’ Josh Shapiro left ‘bad impression’: new book
A new book on the end of Joe Biden’s presidential campaign and the birth of Kamala Harris’ sheds light on the process behind the vice president choosing Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, a decision widely panned by pundits in retrospect.
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Gov. Walz calls special election to fill late Rep. Hortman's seat
A special election will be held Sept. 16 to fill the vacant seat of Minnesota House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman, who was killed last month in a series of targeted
Gov. Walz issues special election to fill late Speaker Hortman’s seat
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz issued a writ of special election to fill the vacancy left by the death of Speaker Melissa Hortman.