Boehner to campaign for Demmer
Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner will be in Minnesota on August 30th to campaign for Randy Demmer, a Republican running for Congress in Minnesota's 1st District. Demmer's campaign manager Jason Flohrs said Boehner will hold at least a fundraiser and a possible public event for Demmer.
"We always thought that we had a good chance of winning this seat back," Flohrs said. "To have some national recognition of that is just great."
Demmer is challenging DFL Rep. Tim Walz in Minnesota's 1st District. The two have been campaigning aggressively in one of the more competitive congressional races in Minnesota this year.
Update: I'm addiing comments from Walz' campaign.
"It's a baliout of a failing campaign," Walz campaign manager Richard Carlbom said. "Demmer has struggled to get his campaign going. It's a bailout to save what remnants of a campaign Demmer has left."
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