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As he rolls out new restrictions on late-night social life to stem the spread of COVID-19, Gov. Tim Walz is making it clear that the pandemic will get worse in the near term before it gets better. “We’re gonna see some really bad data over the next couple of weeks,” he told reporters Tuesday. “We are going to see really high numbers of cases, hospitalizations and, unfortunately, deaths. If we don’t as a nation buckle down and have a national strategy and get this right, this will continue on indefinitely.” The governor’s words came on the same day the Health Department data showed again that a tough October is turning into a brutal November. State health officials on Tuesday reported 4,906 newly confirmed or probable cases, and 23 more deaths. Here are Minnesota’s current COVID-19 statistics:
2,698 deaths (23 new)189,681 positive cases (4,906 new), 153,347 off isolation3.2 million tests, 2 million people tested 12.6 percent seven-day positive test rate (officials find 5 percent concerning)With nearly 500 people wounded by gunfire so far this year, Minneapolis police chief Medaria Arradondo is trying to secure help from other law enforcement agencies.
After an often heated discussion, the Minneapolis City Council approved nearly $500,000 to pay for law enforcement officers from other agencies to help the MPD respond to spike in crime.
“Our resources are hemorrhaging,” Arradondo told members of the Minneapolis City Council during a committee meeting Tuesday. “Our city is bleeding at this moment. I'm trying to do all I can to stop that bleeding and I'm hoping that having the funds to launch a citywide joint enforcement team initiative we can try to stop the bleeding in our city."
A couple of weeks ago, House Republicans were in the minority and forecasts showed that they could lose even more seats in a Democratic wave. That's not what happened.
"You win campaigns with great candidates, with the right message, and you've got to have enough resources," U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, tells All Things Considered. "The top issues were the economy and they were safety and security or law and order. ... And we offered, I think, the best alternative, candidates, and we had the best messages depending on the districts."
In excerpts from the interview, Emmer discusses Republican victories, whether there's room for cooperation and the results of the presidential election.
President Donald Trump and his allies have repeated specious claims that don’t have proof or have been rejected by the courts. Nonpartisan investigations of the 2016 election and previous elections have found that voter fraud is exceedingly rare.
Here's a look at the election and the allegations Trump has made.
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