Watch the full Minnesota’s 8th Congressional District Debate
With the Election just one week away, candidates for Minnesota’s 8th Congressional District met at WDIO for a live debate on Tuesday, October 29. This is a rematch of the 2022 election cycle between incumbent Pete Stauber (R) and Jen Schultz (D). The debate was hosted and moderated by WDIO’s Baihly Warfield and Darren Danielson, with Renee Passal asking questions that focused on mining and the shipping industry.
The debate had to be rescheduled due to a conflict with one of the candidates.
Earlier this fall, WDIO asked viewers to submit questions for the candidates. Both candidates were given rules and procedures prior to the debate and a coin toss determined the order.
Each candidate was given two minutes to answer the question, followed by a 30-second chance for a rebuttal if wanted. Each candidate received 90 seconds to provide a closing statement.
What should Congress do to mitigate the rising costs of everyday goods due to inflation?
Jen Schultz: Well, I first want to thank WDIO for hosting and Baihly and Darren for being here and moderating. So great to be with you all tonight. I’m Jen Schultz. I’m running for Congress because you deserve a better representative. I’m from a small town. My mother raised me as a single mom and she struggled. My grandparents were farmers. My father was a firefighter and served our country in Vietnam. And now I live in Duluth with my very supportive husband, who’s a criminologist and our two amazing teenage sons. I teach economics at UMD And I’m a very proud member of my union. I was served in the state legislator for eight years where I worked across the aisle solving big problems, getting things done and earning the respect and trust of my colleagues, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Libertarians. I was known for solving problems and we have a lot of those in our district. And one thing I do hear a lot about as I’ve traveled over 70,000 miles listening to people is that people are struggling with the high costs of housing and child care and health care. And what Congress can do is to make sure that we have more competition. That we address the high level of mergers and acquisitions and consolidation across health care, the grocery industry, prices. To make sure people can afford to live in our communities. I am pledging to work on all of those issues. My background in economics will help. Unfortunately, my opponent Pete Stauber voted against one bill that would have helped and that is price gouging of gas and oil prices. He voted against that bill. It’s really unfortunate. I’m proud to be here tonight. I can’t wait to share about my accomplishments. About how I show up in our communities to listen, because as a representative, that’s what you need to do.
Pete Stauber: Darrin and Bailey, WDIO. Thanks for hosting this debate once again and I’ll get right to the question. You talk about what the cost is of energy. We’re looking at the cost of groceries, looking at the cost of your electric bill. You know, a bag of groceries shouldn’t cost $100. We need to focus on energy. Energy is the key and under, unfortunately, under the Biden-Harris administration, they are the most anti energy, anti mining administration in the history of this nation. When we can develop the oil and gas, for example, in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Permian Basin, in Alaska, that’s American energy, American jobs for using American technology. What this administration has done has been devastating. As the chair of Energy and Minerals Resources, all wind, solar, mining and oil and gas come through the committee that I chair. The Biden-Harris administration has not opened one mine in this country in the last four years and they have not allowed one lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico. They’re literally shutting down oil extraction in the Gulf of Mexico. And keep in mind that in the Gulf of Mexico, we extract oil and gas 41% cleaner than anybody else in the world. So we have to have an energy policy. You know, it’s not right that the folks in the Northland, especially with the heating season coming up, have to have to pay 30 or 40 percent more for the heating bills every month. It is unacceptable. It has to do with policy and you have to have political leadership that understands that when we change the energy policy and mine and manufacture in the United States, it’s cheaper for us all. It’s affordable for the middle and lower class and that’s exactly what I’ve done in Washington, D.C. on the behalf of the Northlands.
Jen Schultz Rebuttal: The administration has toughened the FTC merger guidelines. There has been so much consolidation across markets that leads to higher prices. It’s not the government that’s setting these prices. It’s private corporations. That’s why we need competition to have lower prices and higher quality. Our country is producing more barrels of oil than ever before in history. 13 billion gallons a day, barrels a day. And what is happening is that we’re even producing a lot of green energy but we’re using more energy.
Pete Stauber Rebuttal: Remember the Inflation Reduction Act, all leading economists said that’s going to lead to inflation and Kamala Harris was the deciding vote for the Inflation Reduction Act, that cost everyday Americans literally hundreds of thousands of dollars. It is unacceptable that the average family is paying $11,400 more per year under the Biden-Harris administration than they did under the Trump administration.
What ideas do you have to conquer the housing shortage in our area? Submitted by: Sharon, of Duluth.
Pete Stauber: Thank you, Bailey. You know, we have a lot of tax credits and incentives to build houses. But what’s happening right now, we have 25 million illegal immigrants competing for housing in every state in this nation. And let me give you a quick example. When you have an administration that doesn’t allow the harnessing of our forest products in a timely matter, we’re not even cutting and harvesting 100% of our natural resources in our forests. We have the Superior National Forest, we have the Chippewa National Forest that we can harness the wood products that come from there to make the dimensional lumber, to make the housing affordable. We’re shipping dimensional lumber to build houses from the country of Canada. And the home builders, every home builder I talked to says that just is pushed on to that young family that wants to have a home for the first time. It’s simply unacceptable. So again, energy, and we need to harvest our timber here, keep our mills open. And we also, when we look at the tax incentives, we also must look at making sure that our young families can afford that American dream. Right now they can’t. A new home for a young family is unattainable under the Biden-Harris administration, and it’s simply unacceptable. We can do better, we know we can do better, and it takes political courage and leadership to do that. Housing is extremely important. It is the American dream. And for those young families that are struggling, if you want to change, get out and vote. We can harness the energy, we can harness the products that make our homes, and we can get government out of the way with the mandates, hundreds and thousands of mandates that come on to the American builder every year. And it’s unacceptable, and we can do much better.
Jen Schultz: Yeah, thank you for that question. This is, I would say, the number one issue I hear about as I’ve traveled over 70,000 miles to the district. Had over 50 plus meet and greets, public meet and greets. Attended 34 parades, and everywhere I went I handed out my business card with my cell phone number, because I wanted to hear and listen to the concerns of folks throughout the district. And housing is a big concern, and the biggest solution is to increase the supply of all types of housing. We also need to make sure we have sound monetary policy so we can lower the interest rates to make mortgages affordable again. And I know that Senator Tina Smith has introduced legislation to make financing easier to get for our developers, and I’m excited to see where that legislation goes. I will be happy to champion that in the House when I’m elected on November 5th. We also have old housing stock throughout the district, so we need to make investments in improving our housing stock. We need to make it affordable for older adults if they’re in a larger home to relocate to a smaller residence, and they’re reluctant to do that right now because of the higher mortgage interest rates. So this is a big issue. I was lucky when I was young, you know, my mother struggled. We had subsidized housing, but she eventually was able to get into a house after she finished her college degree and got a job as a teacher and alcohol and drug abuse counselor. I was able to afford a house after I finished paying off my student loans in my 30s. I started working at age 14, parking cars at the county fair, then I worked as a waitress earning $2 an hour and then put myself through college working at a grocery store and picking up extra shifts. So I know what it’s like for families to struggle. My family struggled. I want to make sure all of our working families thrive, and that means making sure they have affordable housing, and they have good wages and benefits. And that’s why I’m proud to be endorsed by almost every major labor union in the district.
Pete Stauber Rebuttal: Thank you. You know, when we have a federal government that mandates how our builders are to build and what products they can put in our homes, and let me give you an example. We voted on allowing ceiling fans to be in houses. The federal government wanted one certain size of ceiling fan. They don’t give us the opportunity to choose the ceiling fan. They wanted to get rid of gas stoves and refrigerators. The federal government, the bureaucracy is too big, and the housing builders are telling me that everything.
Jen Schultz Rebuttal: Yeah, I’ve talked to developers in the district, and we need to make it easier for them to build more volumes and get bigger discounts. So I know our communities, some of them are coming together to build that volume. We just need to make it easier for developers and cut through some of the red tape and some of the restrictions that we have through low interest government loans. It is a great solution. A lot of developers are reluctant to go through there because there’s a lot of upfront costs that we need to eliminate to make it easier for them to get financing.
How would you protect Second Amendment rights while addressing gun violence?
Jen Schultz: Well, I’m a big supporter of Second Amendment rights. I grew up with a rifle gun cabinet in our dining room that wasn’t locked. I shot a revolver when I was young, so my family would know that I wouldn’t be curious about it, but it is responsible. Gun violence does need to be addressed. I hear a lot about it, especially when I went and visited the high schools in our district. A lot of the students asked me what I would do about gun violence because they have grown up with active shooter drills. They are very worried about this issue. We should make it safe for young people to go to school and learn and not be afraid of being killed by an intruder with an assault rifle or weapon. So I want to address gun violence. I also believe that people can have access to guns and protect our Second Amendment rights, but we need to make sure that we have background checks, which I voted for when I was a state legislator, that we invoke red flag laws at the federal level. People and young people have been asking elected officials to do something about this for a long time. My opponent has been in office for six years. Right now he’s been blaming and complaining a lot. He forgets he’s in Congress. He’s in the majority. He served under a Trump administration. He had every opportunity to address gun violence, the shortages of in housing and other issues like our economy, inflation, and making it affordable for working families. And he has done almost nothing in Congress in six years. He has passed only two of his bills into law. He named a post office, which is nothing wrong with that. And he created a task force. But he has passed no legislation to address all of the issues he talks about. And I’m very worried about that. And you should be as well.
Pete Stauber: First off, I obviously support the Second Amendment. And I don’t support anyone taking that away from us without due process. As a former police officer for 23 years, I was the victim of two violent gun crimes. Both these individuals tried to kill me. One while off duty and one while on duty. I understand the violence and how it disrupts an individual. We need to also look at the prosecution of these criminals. Towards the end of my career in Duluth, I can tell you we would arrest violent criminals in the late evening. Before I was done with my shift at 5 a.m., those criminals were out. We need prosecution for these violent crimes. You can’t have a slap on the wrist. The two individuals that tried to kill me, they had a rap sheet five feet long. They just kept on getting a slap on their hand. The criminal justice failed all of us who were victims of these two criminals. They should have never had guns. They should have been locked up a long time before they were. In fact, when the Lake Superior Drug and Gang Task Force eventually found the guy that tried to kill me, I was called at 2 in the morning by the task force commander. He says, “Pete, we got him. He’s going to be going to jail for a long, long time.” We need strong prosecutions. We need to make sure that if we don’t prosecute, it’s going to get worse. These criminals, if you don’t prosecute strongly the first time, they’re going to go on and on and make victims of more of us, more innocent victims around our nation and the country simply unacceptable.
Jen Schultz Rebuttal: Yeah, people in this country should feel the freedom to be able to go to a movie and not worried about getting shot by a mass shooter. You know, my husband’s a criminologist. I learned a lot about policing and safety, and I have so much respect for our first responders and law enforcement officers. That’s why I voted in favor of and we passed legislation funding in millions of dollars for our law enforcement, And we have a wonderful community policing model in Duluth and across the district.
Pete Stauber Rebuttal: You know, after the individual tried to kill me while on duty, I remember sitting at the steps of Duluth City Hall, the sun was coming up over Lake Superior. I remember the grass was green, beautiful green, and the roses were beautiful yellow. At that moment, I knew that I just escaped death. And by the grace of God, I’m here today. I am so thankful to be here and working on behalf of the 8th Congressional District.
The steel industry is facing some big challenges, with a focus on sustainability. Is there anything the government can do to keep our mines competitive in this new era of mining?
Pete Stauber: Renee, that’s a great question. As the chair of energy and minerals resources, there’s not a week that goes by that the Democrats and Congress don’t want to stop hard rock mining, and that means shutting down the Iron Range. What we need to focus on is the opportunities we have. You know, we’ve been mining in northeastern Minnesota for 140 years. We do it better than anyone with the best labor standards and the best environmental standards. And with that comes steel, that’s made in this country mined by the iron ore on the Iron Range. And by the way, the best water in Minnesota is in the heart of the Iron Range. What we need to do is we have to have the political will to expand iron ore mining. We have to have the political will to mine the critical minerals in the Duluth complex. The Duluth complex is the biggest untapped copper nickel find in the world. All the leading geologists say we have trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars of minerals in that complex. In the Biden-Harris administration, shut it down. Obama, his administration shut it down two weeks before they left office, and the Biden-Harris administration shut it down week one. I can tell you there’s only one candidate, one presidential candidate that will open up the mines on the Iron Range, and that’s Donald Trump, because he did it before. And as I lead, as I’m the mining leader in the House of Representatives, my colleagues look to me. In fact, I’ve brought many of them to the Iron Range to show them how important the Iron Range is, not only to our communities, but our country. Making our own steel is a strategic national security interest that must be protected. Do you remember Donald Trump put the tariffs on the Chinese steel dumping and he stopped it. And thankfully, through a little bit of pressure, the Biden administration kept those tariffs on. We must protect mining on the Iron Range.
Jen Schultz: Thank you for the question. Mining is so important and it’s been vital in our history. And I support 100 percent our mining industry and our miners. That’s why I’m proud to be endorsed by the retired US Steelworkers and was endorsed by USW in 2022. We need to move mining forward and that’s responsible mining. It has stalled under the administration when Stauber has been in office for six years. He is not moving anything forward. In fact, mining and permitting gets litigated in the courts because he can’t bring everyone together. We need a leader that brings everyone to the table. I visited our mining communities. I visited with independent scientists. People have concerns that we need to bring everyone to the table and figure out how we’re going to make the investments to do it responsibly without polluting the water because that is one thing everyone agrees on. When we do it, where we do it, can’t pollute the water because it will destroy our property values. And a lot of people in this district, almost all of their wealth is in their property if they own properties. We have to make sure we don’t do that. What we need to do is bring back federal investments to NRRI, to the entrepreneurs that have developed the technology and the science to filter their water and take the sulfates out and other toxins. They have figured it out but they need to scale that up. And Stauber had so many opportunities in Congress to put appropriations into those spending bills, into the Inflation Reduction Act, the Infrastructure Bill, the American Rescue Plan bill. He did not take any opportunity to do that because he wants to use this as a political wedge issue. I pledge to bring everyone to the table, including our seven tribes, because many of those tribes are the ones that are litigating it because it infringes on their 1854 treaty lands. I pledge to you that I will move mining forward. I have a vision to do mining and so much more.
Pete Stauber Rebuttal: My very first piece of legislation as a member of Congress six years ago was a pro-mining piece of legislation that opened up the Iron Range. Within the last two months, my biggest piece of legislation was the Superior National Forest Restoration Act, which reversed the Biden-Harris mining ban, opened up the mining, gave Twin Metals their leases back. And listen, political seasons are kind of funny. I have to tell you that my opponent absolutely is anti-mining. She supports that in the House of Representatives.
Jen Schultz Rebuttal: That’s not true. I’m pro-mining. I’ve been pro-mining. I know how important it is. I’m an economist, but I want to do more than just mine our rock. I want to do more than just mineral extraction. I want to make steel on the Iron Range. I want to think big. I want to have a vision for the future. I want to make things. We should be making the iron air battery that stores green energy, solar and wind. That fell apart, warm energy, because Stauber refused to work with the Walls Administration and the Biden Administration.
As shipping leaders look at sustainability as well, what do you see as challenges or opportunities for the Great Lakes region?
Jen Schultz: We have a lot of opportunities. I was a Great Lake Commissioner for eight years, concurrent with my service as a state legislator. I worked with Republicans across the Great Lakes states and Democrats and the two Canadian provinces to make sure that we promote the Great Lakes and we protect the Great Lakes and its watershed. But there are so many opportunities for shipping and for our port, and that’s why I’m so proud of the administration and the Democrats and some Republicans who passed the largest bipartisan infrastructure bill in history. That’s bringing so much money, billions of dollars to our district and our state, not just the billion dollars to replace the Blatnik Bridge, but money for our port, our airports, our roads, which are decaying, and broadband, internet service, which is desperately needed in large parts of our district. It’s also money to replace lead service lines. No amount of lead is safe for working families, kids to drink. So we have lots of opportunities in that bill. That money is going out and it’s providing so many good union jobs. My opponent, Pete Stauber, voted against that bill, and that’s not the issue, but the issue is he showed up and took credit for that bill, preempted the President from coming to our district announcing this investment in our community, and he misrepresented that he may have supported it, but he voted against the funding. And that would have never happened if we didn’t have legislators, Congress folks supporting that bill and having two senators advocating to get that funding. So we have lots of opportunity to build, make things on the Iron Range and make other things throughout the district to promote good jobs with living wages and great benefits. And we need more good union jobs. So I’m looking forward to working with our unions and working with folks, entrepreneurs and other folks in industry.
Pete Stauber: I was proud earlier this year to receive the Great Lakes Legislator of the Year Award. Listen, I’ve lived in Duluth in this area my entire life. I value Lake Superior. That’s why Marcy Kaptur and my Democrat colleague from Ohio lead the Great Lakes Caucus. We have added over $320 million to the Great Lakes Restorative Initiative. I understand the value of all the Great Lakes. I understand the value of the Duluth Seaway Port Authority. That’s the most inland port in this country. We’re trying to focus on bringing the ships and other commodities right here into Duluth and that’ll bring great jobs. One of the things that we don’t talk about in the harbor is dredging. I am leading the effort to expand dredging in every harbor in this nation as a member of the Transportation Infrastructure Committee. When I brought it up at one of the hearings, one of the individuals came up to me and said, “You’re the only person that I have ever heard talk about the importance of dredging.” If we don’t dredge, we lose hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars of economic activity right here in the Duluth Superior Harbor. So dredging is extremely important. By the way, we have the opportunity, we have shipyards on the Great Lakes. I am leading the effort to allow naval shipyards that can get through the St. Lawrence Seaway and the Soo Locks to be able to be rebuilt and refurbished right here on the Great Lakes. I think that’s really important, especially with the backlog we have. And then the last thing I have to say, in just a few weeks, working with some public-private investment and the U.S. Navy, there’s going to be an announcement very soon on the opportunity that Lake Superior will have to secure our Navy and our nation, and that’s coming very soon. Stay tuned.
Jen Schultz Rebuttal: As a member of the Great Lakes Commission, I advocated for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative funding to clean up the St. Louis River and the area of concern. I’m proud of the work we did there to do that over eight years to bring back wild rising on the Great Lakes. I was just up in Grand Portage visiting with the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, and I got to see the new Hat Point Ferry Terminal, which is a wonderful terminal that will help and increase tourism going over to Isle Royale. But there’s so many opportunities with our Great Lakes.
Pete Stauber Rebuttal: Well, I think that when you understand the value, I was on the Duluth Seaway Port Authority when I was a St. Louis County Commissioner. I began to understand how important the Duluth Seaway Port Authority is to this region. And that’s another reason why I’m supporting the investment into the SOO Locks. The Soo Locks are so important. I mean, 12% of our GDP comes through the Soo Locks, so nobody knows the Great Lakes like I do in Congress. I guarantee you that.
The U.S. has historically provided financial relief to foreign countries, like Israel and Ukraine. Would you vote to continue support those countries, or do you believe the nation’s role should change going forward?
Pete Stauber: Listen, Vladimir Putin is a tyrant. He’s a dictator. And Ukraine must win. The Hamas terrorist attack in Israel killing 1,300 people is atrocious. Let’s go back and look back why this started. It started with the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal by the Biden-Harris administration. And remember, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden stated to the American people they were the last ones in the room. It was a devastating decision that took the lives of 13 service members, heroes in our country. In fact, a month and a half ago, I stood in Congress while those families accepted the Congressional Gold Medal Award by the House of Representatives. I talked to those families. They are so disturbed at the decision of the Biden-Harris administration. What’s happening is when appeasement begets aggression, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are appeasing dictators and tyrants. And when you appease dictators and tyrants, they invade. They invaded Ukraine under Biden-Harris. Russia invaded Crimea under Obama. Hamas invaded Israel. Iran, for the first time ever, sent 183 ballistic missiles into our biggest and best ally in the Middle East, Israel under Biden-Harris’ watch. If you go back and look four years ago under Trump, we had peace and security around the world because peace through strength, the Reagan doctrine works. Biden and Harris are getting run over by tyrants in the world, and it’s costing us all.
Jen Schultz: So you’re either supportive of democracy or you support Putin. How many people think that Putin is going to stop at Ukraine? Not Poland, not Germany, not Finland, not Sweden, and not me. Stauber voted against funding to help Ukraine. He’s giving Putin the keys. He’s opening that door to those other countries, and it’s dangerous. Putin is not our ally. He’s dangerous. And we need to do whatever we can in our national security interest to protect a sovereign democracy that Putin invaded. So we need to do all we can and work with our NATO allies. In terms of the Middle East, it’s a tragedy on both sides. The Israelis we’ve lost, the Palestinians the innocent lives that we’ve lost. We need an immediate ceasefire. We need a two-state solution. We need diplomacy. It is really escalated, and it’s really unfortunate. We need to build off the Abraham Accord and work as hard as we can to bring peace to that region. It is time to end war over religion, over land, over oil. We have bigger problems coming in the future, and those are the things we should focus on. But my opponent, he is an election denier. He wanted to overturn the 2020 election. He voted against investigating an insurrection on January 6th, where 140 police officers were injured and some people died. I am very concerned about our democracy. I’m very concerned about another attack on our capital, and I’m very concerned that my opponent Pete Stauber will not certify the presidential election results in January, and it’s the new members of the House of Representatives that certify that election.
Pete Stauber Rebuttal: Well, unfortunately, Jennifer, you have no idea what you’re talking about when it comes to the Mideast. I get security briefings. Jennifer just said that we need the Abraham Accords. Kamala Harris and Joe Biden took the Abraham Accords off the table. We had peace in the Mideast with the Abraham Accords. And Kamala Harris and Joe Biden took them off the table. Look at the chaos that it has caused.
Jen Schultz Rebuttal: I do know what I’m talking about. I have studied this issue. I have spoken to Senator Amy Klobuchar about this issue. We both agree that we should build off those Accords. Yes, they happen under Trump. That’s great. I’m not attacking Trump. I’m not attacking Biden or Harris. I’m looking for solutions to end the war in the Middle East. I’m not going to argue with you about what you think I know and I don’t know. But if you’re in Congress, you should be solving this problem. I’m just a candidate for Congress.
No matter the outcome, will you accept the results of the Presidential Election?
Jen Schultz: Yes, I will definitely accept the results of the presidential election. President Biden won in 2020. I am not an election denier like my opponent. I’m going to make sure that there’s a peaceful transition of power when I’m elected. Members of Congress get sworn in on January 3rd. That’s why it’s so important to flip the U.S. House of Representatives because I do not have certainty that the Republicans in charge will do that. You heard Trump in New York at Madison Square Garden mention his little secret with the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. I’m worried that they are not going to certify the election results. Our democracy is on the line. We need to make sure that it’s strong. And it’s strong for not just us, but our children and our grandchildren. That’s doing my duty. That’s upholding our Constitution. Any member of Congress that doesn’t do that should not be there. They are not qualified to be members of Congress, including my opponent, who’s an election denier and wanted to overturn the 2020 election.
Pete Stauber: Yes, of course. And I certify the 2020 election as well. You know, I think really we need to bring down the red wreck. All of us. All of us have the opportunity to do that. I think the responsibility. We’re all Americans. We want the best for children and grandchildren. We’re thankful that the greatest generation gave us the best country on Earth. As Kid Rock says, it’s not a better place to raise a flag, a son or a daughter, or expectations than right here in the United States of America. It is important that we tone down our rhetoric and understand politics should not divide our families and our communities. And it has. And it’s unfortunate. I want to do my part to raise expectations as we go forward.
Closing Statements
Jen Schultz: Well, I’m honored to be here. I want to move our district forward. I want to turn the page. I know we have a week to go before the election. People are tired of the anger and the hatred and the bitterness and the political rhetoric. But my opponent contributes to that. He- his emails are filled with anger and hate and blaming and complaining instead of solving the problems he talks about like border security. He failed to pass a bipartisan border security bill. They didn’t even bring it up on the US House floor. He complains about it, but he’s been in office. We should have been solving stronger border security and asylum reform a long time ago. He voted against veterans when he voted against the PACT Act, which covers veterans exposed to toxins. My dad was a veteran. I want to make sure we protect veterans’ services. He voted against the PRO Act, which helps unions and working families have enough money to pay their bills. He’s anti-choice. He sponsors a bill that makes it impossible to get IVF. He voted against access to birth control. I’m going to fight to make sure we have all of our rights, our reproductive rights. I don’t want to go back 50 years. I don’t want a politician in my physician’s exam room. I want to make sure we have all of our rights and make sure women are not dying because they’re not getting the health care they need. I’m worried about what Pete Stauber will do if he’s reelected. He hasn’t accomplished a lot. He doesn’t show up, doesn’t hold in-person town hall meetings. I show up, I get things done, and I want to represent you. Please go to Jen Schultz for Congress for more information.
Pete Stauber: Darren and Baihly, thanks for hosting this event debate tonight. Jennifer, thanks for joining me once again. I really appreciate this opportunity to be able to talk about America. You know, no matter how hard my opponent tries, she cannot run from the extreme far-failed left politics of the Biden-Harris administration, that has resulted in skyrocketing prices, open borders, wide open southern border, and chaos and wars abroad. And tonight, you heard more of the same. We need to turn the page. If you are sick and tired of the chaos caused by this administration, you have the opportunity. You have the opportunity to get out and vote. Your vote is guaranteed to you by the United States Constitution. We should never let West and East Coast elites tell us how to live here in the Northland. I am fighting for our way of life. We have an opportunity. If you’ve had enough, get out and vote. Get your friends, your families out to vote. Make it count. We have a country to save. We have a future to uphold in this greatest country that we call the United States of America. I am Pete Stauber, and I humbly ask for your vote again.