Southern Minnesota congressional candidates differ on Trump
Associated PressMINNEAPOLIS — Candidates in a southern Minnesota congressional district that represents one of the best opportunities for Republicans to flip a Democratic-held House seat clashed Friday about health care, trade and President Donald Trump. “Are we going to go the direction of the resistance, the people that want to replace President Trump, the people that want to take us back to the Obama years and then some?” Feehan said he’d be “an independent voice in Washington,” not beholden to party leaders or corporate interests. He said Congress is dysfunctional because it has become “hyper-partisan” with GOP lawmakers unwilling to work across the aisle or to be “a check and balance against the president.” Hagedorn challenged Feehan’s independence. Hagedorn said he’d repeal and replace Obama’s health care law with “free-market reforms.” He said letting people buy into Medicare would “destroy medicine as we know it” because Medicare pays doctors and hospitals less than private insurance, which he said would harm Mayo and its expansion plans.
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