Labor, Gender Issues Shaping Key Minnesota Rematch

Unions on opposing sides and the #MeToo movement are fueling a rematch of the 2016 congressional race in Minnesota’s 2nd District. The names on the ballot are the same, but circumstances have changed.

“This is one of those races that is going to decide whether the Democrats can take back the majority in the House,” Lawrence Jacobs, political science professor at the University of Minnesota, told Bloomberg Law. “There’s an incumbent who is more conservative than his district,” he said, adding that the district has voted Republican for years “but has been trending in a more moderate direction.”

The district ...