Sunday Night Debates: AG, SOS And Gov. Walz Declines Debate With Dr. Jensen

By Caroline Cummings, CBS Minnesota

October 24, 2022

The candidates seeking the offices of Minnesota attorney general and secretary of state squared off in back-to-back televised debates on Sunday, making their final pitches to voters two weeks before Election Day.

DFL incumbent Keith Ellison faces GOP challenger Jim Schultz in a closely watched race that's a dead heat in recent polling. Ellison is seeking his second four-year term, while Schultz seeks to break a stalemate for Republicans in that office, which his party hasn't won in 50 years.

The exchanges between the candidates were tense at times during Sunday's showdown, which was their fourth and final debate over a 10-day period. Key issues that dominated previous conversations between the two seeking to be Minnesota's top legal officer were again in focus: crime, abortion, and the Feeding Our Future fraud case.

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