Minnesota's 2nd congressional district

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Eric Pratt, the Republican running for Angie Craig's open seat in Minnesota's 2nd District... left the AI restating his prompt on his website.

Quote, the president is not popular, so all messaging should be focused on local politics and needs.

So this is on his website.

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Your district, the Minnesota 2 District, is an interesting one.

It is truly kind of a, it's got both sides.

You got suburban neighborhoods from Minneapolis, St. Paul, but you do run very rural and farm a lot of farming communities as well.

Police still have not established a task force, but say they'll keep working to prevent violence.

The two candidates for Congress in Minnesota's 2nd District debated on NPR News on Friday.

They sharply disagreed on a number of issues, including the war in Iran.

Democrat Matt Little said President Trump lied about the war and the U.S. should end it as soon as possible.

It's for profits for the people that are supporting his campaign.

Pratt says the world cannot afford a nuclear-armed Iran and that the U.S. has to end the war from a position of strength.

He says some oil interests support his campaign because there are refineries in the 2nd District.

To say that the only reason I want to stay in Iraq, Iran, is because of the oil companies is absolutely ludicrous.

I had the pleasure of speaking to a Mr. Matt Little.

Matt is running for Congress in Minnesota's 2nd District, and Matt's race is super, super interesting, and I really enjoyed talking to him.

Now, the race is interesting because the district he's running in, the second district, is a very purple district.

It's not this one that always votes blue or something like that.

Thanks for listening to Sunday Take today.

It is campaign season and as we enjoy doing, we have a debate today in Congressional District 2.

And that will be the full show for today.

And we'll dive right in with our candidates.

His only option is to try to tear me down because he can't win this election on his own policies.

We're going to take a break, five minutes.

You're listening to the Congressional District 2 debate between Democrat Matt Little and Republican Eric Pratt.

This is Sunday Take, and I'm Blois Olson.

No, you know, and it's interesting too, this sort of like how the districts have changed, you know, when I was coming up in politics, which to me doesn't seem that long ago, but in an objective sense was a very long time ago.

The notion that this is the last time iron range seat held by a democrat is sort of just kind of amazing uh and not that others couldn't flip this year and and may well uh that you'd call iron range or iron range adjacent uh seats but that that is at least of note too that there's a there's some legacy component going into that I also, on the age thing, I can remember early in my career the race for Minnesota's 2nd District, which was then held by Democrat Bill Luther.

He was being challenged by John Klein.

This is in 2000.