{"id":1597841,"date":"2022-08-09T19:48:29","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T23:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1597841"},"modified":"2022-08-09T19:49:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T23:49:06","slug":"key-congressional-races-define-minnesota-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/key-congressional-races-define-minnesota-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Congressional Races Define Minnesota Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkey-congressional-races-define-minnesota-primary%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1597841&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>As Minnesota voters head to the polls on Aug. 9, three pivotal U.S. House seats are among the races on the ballot, including the 1st Congressional District, which has a special election and a primary.<\/p>\n<p>Mostly situated in rural southern Minnesota, the 1st\u00a0District has the special election to fill the remainder of the late Republican U.S. Rep. Jim Hagedorn\u2019s term.<\/p>\n<p>Hagedorn was first elected in 2019. He died after a long battle with kidney cancer, his wife, Jennifer Carnahan, announced on Feb. 18.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat and a former 1st Congressional District representative, announced details for the special election within the three-day window of Hagedorn\u2019s death, as established by Minnesota law.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Trump-Maga-Rally-Minnesota-7742-1-1200x800-1.jpg\"><\/a> President Donald Trump and GOP congressional candidate Jim Hagedorn appear at a Make America Great Again rally in Rochester, Minn., on Oct. 4, 2018. (Charlotte Cuthbertson\/The Epoch Times) <\/p>\n<p>Hagedorn won by less than one percentage point in 2018 before prevailing by 3 percentage points in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Candidates for the special election are Republican Brad Finstad and Democrat Jeff Ettinger.<\/p>\n<p>If Finstad prevails, that will narrow the Democrats\u2019 already slim majority in the U.S. House.<\/p>\n<p>Finstad is a former state representative. Ettinger is the former CEO of Hormel Foods Corp. Each candidate advanced in their respective special election primaries in May.<\/p>\n<p>They are also running in the second election for a full two-year term in November. In those races, they face challengers.<\/p>\n<p>Finstad is opposed by state Rep. Jeremy Munson in the Republican primary. Finstad defeated Munson in the May special election primary.<\/p>\n<p>George Kalberer and James Rainwater are also on the ballot with Ettinger in the Democratic primary.<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 8, Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon said that results for the special election might take longer to be released because it is a special election held<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Minnesota voters head to the polls on Aug. 9, three pivotal U.S. House seats are among the races on the ballot, including the 1st Congressional District, which has a special election and a primary. Mostly situated in rural southern Minnesota, the 1st\u00a0District has the special election to fill the remainder of the late Republican [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":492,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1597841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/492"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1597841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1597841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1597841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1597841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}