Minnesota political parties make final push to get voters involved for midterm elections

Minnesota political parties make final push to get voters involved for midterm elections

MANKATO, Minn. (KEYC) - The Democratic Farm Labor Party’s Tour Bus made a stop at the party’s Mankato Office at 1600 Madison Avenue as part of a final push to get voters involved on Friday, Oct. 30.

U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Secretary of State Steve Simon and Attorney General Keith Ellison and several other federal and local DFL candidates made an appearance to encourage party volunteers to help with voter outreach over the next four days.

Sen. Klobuchar said the stop was one of several she had planned as part of her ongoing campaign for Minnesota governor on Friday.

“We are going to every corner of the state, we’re heading to Austin now, we’ll be in Rochester, going up north as well and I believe you go not just where its comfortable, but where its uncomfortable,” Sen. Klobuchar said.

DFL volunteers at the event were organized to help with door knocking, calls and other forms of voter outreach to make sure those who haven’t voted yet, remember to get involved on election day, on Tuesday, Nov. 3.

“We really do have a lot more people to get out to vote. There are people who were not 18 years old ...