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Politics at the Minnesota State Fair: Candidates mingle with voters ahead of November
Candidates used the fair to court voters in a policy-focused setting, while debate-style events have largely disappeared and the last top-office fair debate was in 2018.
- The Minnesota State Fair serves as a crucial campaign hub, providing candidates their first major face-to-face opportunity to meet voters two months before the general election.
- High-Profile debates for top offices have disappeared from the Great Minnesota Get-Together since 2018, with candidates now preferring to mingle with potential voters at booths and during solo interviews.
- Gov. Peggy Flanagan, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, served milk, while Republican Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Klobuchar discussed housing affordability on the KARE-11 stage.
- Some voters, including Anna Gurung of Hastings, expressed concerns regarding Operation Metro Surge, while Corbin Scott of Arden Hills described both Demuth and Klobuchar as "decent women."
- Following conservative backlash earlier this year, fair officials removed a crop art piece displaying "8647," a term calling for the removal of President Donald Trump.
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