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🚨 UPDATE 🧵: Nate George's campaign is currently scrubbing their website to remove inaccuracies and discrepancies in George's claimed qualifications and credentials.

Here's what's changed, and why it matters for a candidate running to be Minnesota's fraud watchdog.
Here's the background: George publicly claimed to be a "certified fraud examiner" to attack his opponent's fraud-detection expertise. He's not certified.
His campaign website also claimed George "is" a certified Medical First Responder. That's not true either. Image
His campaign website was quietly edited tonight. "He is also a certified Firefighter, Paralegal and Medical First Responder..." has become "He was a certified Firefighter, and Medical First Responder."

"Paralegal" was dropped from that list entirely. Image
As I noted last night, sources say the list of discrepancies in George's claimed qualifications keeps growing. Tonight's website scrubbing is proof his campaign already knows the problems are real and is trying to get ahead of them quietly instead of coming clean.
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Feb 22
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Tafoya also had a custom Linktree to share her Substack, podcasts, and other content, which has also been deleted.

She's making it difficult for the public to learn about her vast record of political commentary while she's running for public office.

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🧵NEW via Substack: 10 questions for Republican candidates seeking President Trump's endorsement.

Question 1. What specifically are you endorsing when you seek President Trump's support: his policies, his character, or his conduct?

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Question 2. President Trump recently claimed he won Minnesota in 2016, 2020, and 2024 — despite official results showing he lost all three. Do you agree with him? If not, why haven’t you corrected the record?

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SHOCK: This is beyond the pale. Today, the #MNGOP invoked Melissa Hortman in a campaign list email from #MNGOP ED Jennifer DeJournett.

I have never seen a state party use the name of a murdered legislator from the other side of the aisle in an email to their list before. Image
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Overall, this email is tone-deaf, careless, and disrespectful.

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My phone is blowing up with messages. People are outraged.

"Mixing policy outcomes with Melissa Hortman’s murder is just disgustingly distasteful."
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Dive in below and comment!
One of the questions I often get asked is how to engage with a journalist with a bias or agenda. It can be intimidating to push back on a reporter, especially if they are aggressive. I think @daniellarsonpro has presented evidence of the most egregious examples I've seen.
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I've published posts recently about #mnleg candidates with violent or disturbing pasts that should raise questions about their ability to effectively serve in office.
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I am stunned by what I learn.

Let's start with a video posted by Hoff on Nov 15, 2023.

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