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Chris Madel, a Republican running for governor of Minnesota, is dropping out of the race, saying the GOP can’t win and calling the federal immigration crackdown that left a second person dead in Minneapolis over the weekend “an unmitigated disaster.”
“I cannot support the national Republican stated retribution on the citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so,” Madel said in a video posted Monday on social media.
Madel’s withdrawal adds to the bipartisan backlash over the Jan. 24 killing by a federal agent of Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse whom Trump administration officials portrayed as a violent agitator despite video evidence to the contrary. It’s a dramatic shift in tone for Madel, who has providedlegal assistance to a different federal agent who fatally shot Renee Good earlier this month.
In his video, Madel said US Immigration and Customs Enforcement “has authorized its agents to raid homes using a civil warrant that need only be signed by a Border Patrol agent. That’s unconstitutional, and it’s wrong.”
He added that “weaponizing criminal investigations against...
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