Monday, January 12, 2026

GET ME REWRITE: Likely that Minnesota voters will be once bitten twice shy when it comes to 74-year-old Jesse Ventura on the ballot

 
Still as nutty as ever!  (Seen here campaigning for RFKjr in 2024.)
 
Photo credit:  Gage Skidmore
Headline:  The Downballot, 1/12/2026

Jeff Singer reports:
Ventura signaled that he would still not campaign as a member of either major party if he runs to succeed Democratic Gov. Tim Walz, who announced Monday that he would not seek reelection. 
While the former governor slammed Donald Trump as “the draft-dodging coward” and praised Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, another Democrat, for their response to the killing of Renee Good by an ICE agent, he still trashed both parties. 
“[S]omebody needs to clean up what the Democrats and Republicans constantly wreck,” said Ventura. “And you notice I lump them together.


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