Republican Wins Minnesota Special General Election for Vacant US House Seat
President Donald Trump and GOP congressional candidate Jim Hagedorn at a Make America Great Again rally in Rochester, Minn., on Oct. 4, 2018. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times
Republican Brad Finstad on Aug. 9 defeated Democrat Jeff Ettinger in the special election to fill the remainder of the late Republican Rep. Jim Hagedorn’s term.
With 56 percent of the votes counted at 11:07 p.m., Finstad received 77 percent of the vote to Ettinger’s 23 percent, according to The Associated Press.
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