Daily Digest for June 8, 2020 Posted at 6:35 a.m. by Cody Nelson
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Good morning and welcome to Monday. Here's your Capitol View.
Minnesota's primary election is August 11. David Montgomery has the highlights: "At the top of the ticket, U.S. Sen. Tina Smith, a Democrat, will face off against challengers Steve Carlson, Ahmad Hassan, Paula Overby and Christopher Seymore in the August primary, as she seeks her first full six-year term in office. Smith was appointed to the Senate in January 2018 and won a special election that November to stay in office. Republicans will have to decide if they want to nominate former U.S. Rep. Jason Lewis or rivals John Berman, Bob Carney, Cynthia Gall and James Reibestein."
And in other races ... "DFL voters in the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 7th congressional districts will have to choose their party’s nominee, all cases in which incumbent representatives are facing primary challenges. Republican voters will have choices in the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th districts. Seats in the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 7th districts are held by Democrats, while the 6th and 8th have Republican incumbents facing party challengers. In the state Legislature, there will be 25 DFL primaries and 15 Republican primaries. Of those 40 legislative primaries, 11 incumbent Democrats and 7 incumbent Republicans face primary challenges."
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Joe Biden has formally clinched the Democratic nomination. Via NPR: "The delegate count formalizes what's been clear since Biden took a commanding delegate lead in mid-March and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders dropped out of the race in early April: the 78-year-old, who served as a U.S. senator from Delaware for decades before becoming vice president in 2009, will be his party's standard bearer against President Trump."
Colin Powell is voting for Biden. "I think what we're seeing now with the most massive protest movement I have ever seen in my life, I think it suggests that the country is getting wise to this and we're not going to put up with it anymore," the former GOP secretary of state said, per the AP. |
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