Brad Finstad, a former Trump Administration official, defeated Jeffrey Ettinger, a Democrat, to win the special election for an open House seat in southern Minnesota.
The Minnesota Twins and St. Louis Cardinals play a spring training baseball game. In this photo, Jim Mone poses.
The race for finstad was called by the AP. More than 85% of the vote was counted.
Ettinger came in second with 46.9% of the vote.
The First Congressional District seat in Minnesota has been vacant since the death of Jim Hagedorn on February 17th.
Both Ettinger and Finstad will be on the ballot in the general election in November after winning their party primaries.
According to the Cook Political Report, the GOP has a 7-percentage-point advantage in its rating of the First District. Ettinger, a former Hormel Foods CEO who self-funded his campaign, boasted that he was inspired to run after former President Donald Trump's supporters. In a campaign ad, Ettinger said he would only take his orders from Minnesota. When he was elected to the Minnesota state House in 2003 at the age of 26 and later served more than three years as Minnesota state director of USDA Rural Development under Trump, he ran a campaign centered around attacks on President Joe Biden, blaming him for the highest inflation the U.S. has
Republicans are expected to make major gains in the mid-terms by exploiting Biden's poor approval ratings, but recent polling suggests Democrats may be starting to close the enthusiasm gap on the GOP The Democrats have a better chance of keeping control of the Senate than the Republicans did in June. In mid-July, the GOP's chances of winning control of the House were close to 90 percent.
Voters in Minnesota will choose a new member of Congress.
A poll suggests that the majority of people don't like Biden.
In the First Congressional District special election, there were two candidates.
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