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North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum has no authority to appoint a coal company executive to fill a state House seat won by a Republican candidate who died before the election, the attorney general said Wednesday.
Hundreds of protesters marched from two different Minneapolis locations Wednesday night to protest the presidential election -- before converging onto Interstate 94 and being arrested.
Since early summer, members of the Minneapolis Charter Commission has been investigating the call from city leaders to change policing in the city of Minneapolis.
The 7th District is a prime example of a trend in Minnesota and across the country that has accelerated under President Trump: agricultural and rural areas, as well as small towns, shifting from solidly Democratic to solidly Republican.
As of yet, the Associated Press has not made a projection in the race, but with 100% of the precincts reporting, Craig leads 202,597 to Republican challenger Tyler Kistner's 193,505.
With little change in the balance of power, Democrats and Republicans are likely to continue to struggle to find common ground on major issues.
A spokesperson within Secretary of State Steve Simon's office said there were approximately 3.1 million votes cast in the election but said there are still votes coming in that will be counted.
The election has set the stage for more partisan gridlock at the Minnesota Capitol, with Republicans appearing likely Wednesday to hang onto their slim majority in the Senate and Democrats poised to keep a diminished majority in the House.
Trump won Wisconsin by fewer than 23,000 votes four years ago. Biden sought to put the state back in the Democratic column, where it was for a generation before 2016.
President Donald Trump and Joe Biden are locked Wednesday in a razor-thin race in Wisconsin. With Biden holding a slim lead, the president intends to seek a recount.
North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum on Wednesday appointed a coal company executive to fill a state House seat left open by a Republican candidate who died last month due to complications from COVID-19.
Rep. Tom Emmer is projected to win against political newcomer Tawnja Zahradka to keep his 6th Congressional District seat, according to the Associated Press. This will make it his fourth term representing the district.
A referendum that would have significantly boosted spending per pupil in a minority-majority southern Minnesota school district has failed.
Republican challenger Michelle Fischbach is projected to have ended Rep. Collin Peterson's three-decade career representing the 7th Congressional District.
President Donald Trump, U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds and U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson won in South Dakota on Tuesday. But with Republicans long dominating the state's elections, the most interesting development was the passage of separate proposals to legalize both medical and recreational marijuana. Election officials received a historic number of absentee ballots, raising the possibility that tallying the results could take longer than usual.
