![]() ![]() Ellison enthused about Herring: “He’s fighting the battle. Maura Healey of Massachusetts was “killing it” while Becerra, as well as Mark Herring of Virginia, were “awesome”. ![]() ![]() He talked of potential attorney general peers like a schoolboy talking about star athletes. In 2016, Xavier Becerra left a position in the House Democratic leadership to replace Kamala Harris as California attorney general upon her election to the Senate. “I didn’t think I needed to leave Congress to run against a Democratic incumbent,” said Ellison “but when the seat became open, I said, ‘This is what we gotta do.’”ĭemocratic voters go to polls on 14 August to select a nominee for Minnesota attorney general.Įllison is the second congressional Democrat to leave Capitol Hill to seek a state attorney general position since Trump’s election. However, he was spurred to run when current incumbent Lori Swanson decided to mount a gubernatorial bid. The Minnesota Democrat told the Guardian that he had been thinking about leaving Congress and running for state attorney general “for years”. I can write a bill, but I can’t do anything right away about it,” he said. “Whether it’s telling people they can’t come here because of their religion, companies charging women more because they are women, kicking out 800,000 people who only know America as their home … I can speak out as a member of Congress. He added that what he saw as some of the biggest civil rights issues facing Americans were in areas where a state attorney general could intervene. Writing the law is super important, writing federal law is super important, but also enforcing the law is equally important and that’s just the end of it that I’d rather be focused on at this point.” Keith EllisonĮllison said: “I basically made a choice about what end of the fight I want to be in. I basically made a choice about what end of the fight I want to be in. In contrast, he noted state attorneys general were looking at litigation on the issue. He described state attorney general as “the one job in politics where you can do the most good as quickly as possible”.Įllison used “the horror at the border” with Trump’s family separation policy as one example where “in order for me to do anything about it as member of Congress, anything real, I gotta have enough people in Congress to vote for it”. However, on the eve of a midterm election where his party seems poised to retake control of the House of Representatives for the first time in nearly a decade, the 54-year-old announced that he was leaving Congress in order to run in a competitive Democratic primary for Minnesota attorney general.Įllison explained his reasoning in a June interview with the Guardian in a Duluth coffee shop as the six-term Democrat prepared to take part in protests and marches against Donald Trump’s visit to the city. ![]()
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