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BumRushDaShow

(142,244 posts)
Thu Nov 7, 2024, 04:18 AM Nov 7

Gov. Tim Walz Will Face New Era of Divided Government in Minnesota

Source: US News and World Report/AP

Nov. 6, 2024, at 4:26 p.m.


MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Gov. Tim Walz faces a new era of divided government when he returns home from the presidential campaign trail, now that Republicans appear to have broken the Democratic trifecta that helped put him on Kamala Harris’ radar.

While Democrats will keep their one-seat majority in the Senate, leaders on both sides agree that Republicans gained enough seats in the election to tie control of the House at 67-67.

According to a tally by The Associated Press, the chamber stood at 65-65 Wednesday afternoon. It would end in a 67-67 tie if the leaders of the last four undeclared races remain ahead. Two of them are so razor-thin that automatic recounts have been triggered unless lawmakers waive them.

The last time the House was tied was in 1979, and the history of that legislative session suggests that power-sharing will be contentious.

Read more: https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2024-11-06/gov-tim-walz-will-face-new-era-of-divided-government-in-minnesota

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PortTack

(34,643 posts)
2. Walz has a very high approval rating. The ppl of MN will welcome him back and help him continue governing as b4
Thu Nov 7, 2024, 10:16 AM
Nov 7

FakeNoose

(35,659 posts)
5. I hope that's true, he deserves to be welcomed back
Thu Nov 7, 2024, 11:20 AM
Nov 7

Gov. Walz can be proud, he did a great job. His campaign was flawless.

turbinetree

(25,267 posts)
3. What is really fucked up in the state I use to live in, is the entire northern part has gone fucking maga.............
Thu Nov 7, 2024, 10:37 AM
Nov 7

there is a Ford plant up in the northern section, or there use to be, Northwest has been taken over by Delta, and now taconite mining in the northern part is all about what is left for industry , it use to have five or 6 open pit Iron Ore mines, that have gone belly up and now turned into museums..........they even have a bike path that runs the entire length for the vacationers from Eveleth to Grand Rapids , and then there is the Boundary Canoe Area, now they can open up that long awaited nickel mine right next to it fuck the BWC, but back in the day there was blue sections up there, now you go into a bar and all you hear and see is that fucking murdoch propaganda.............the entire section up there now reminds me Chronic Wasting Disease because a lot people kill the deer to supplement the fridge during the winter problem is the deer population is being decimated by the disease, and the income for the state and area is being affected just like the murdoch propaganda machine................who are they going to blame the natives or the immigrants, maybe they can get the rfk asshole to make the the determination since he wants to gut the forest service that looking for answers to the disease and the fda and the usga.........But now to worry all the uppity ups and right wingers are building cabins up north to bring there I got mine and why don't' you have yours............ BS up north.................

wolfie001

(3,627 posts)
4. I wonder if the easily putin-influenced gaza protestors will come to regret their choice?
Thu Nov 7, 2024, 10:57 AM
Nov 7

Or is their goal to just burn everything the F down? There was a TT'er who I stopped following that echoed that very message. About a year ago.

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