How St. Paul's Mayor Lost a 'Safe' Re-election Bid
Until the final weeks of the campaign, Mayor Melvin Carter’s third election as St. Paul mayor seemed assured.
He had plenty of money and the endorsements of both of Minnesota’s U.S. senators and Gov. Tim Walz. Even without much campaigning in the spring and summer, he wielded the advantages of an incumbent, with the mayor using the office to cast himself as a foil to the Trump administration and a leader on gun control in Minnesota.
And he had made his first two runs for the office look easy.
Today, Carter finds himself about to be out of a job after losing his reelection bid to a former staffer, Kaohly Her, a stunning result that will usher in the city’s first Hmong American mayor.
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