ROCHESTER, Minn. – An attorney active in challenging results of the 2020 election, Kim Crockett, was endorsed for secretary of state at the Republican state convention. As secretary of state, Crockett would oversee Minnesota elections. The endorsement makes Crockett the apparent frontrunner for the November ballot against Democrat incumbent Steve Simon. Crockett is former vice president of the conservative think tank Center of the American Experiment. She made headlines in 2019 for when the Center suspended her for 30 days after racist remarks about Somali refugees. To the New York Times she had said: “I think of America, the great assimilator, as a rubber band, but with this — we’re at the breaking point. These aren’t people coming from Norway, let’s put it that way. These people are very visible.” She later apologized. At the Republican convention in Rochester this weekend, Crockett defeated Kelly Jahner-Byrne. In 2922 Jahner-Byrne was unsuccessful as a candidate for the state House of Representatives from south Minneapolis suburbs in District 52-B.

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Crockett at a 2019 Minnesota event: “: “We have a 46-day voting season. It’s something we need to get rid of. And let’s work on that, but in the meantime, we have a 46-day voting season. It’s a really long time to cheat.”

Crockett. From the upscale Lake Minnetonka suburb of Excelsior. University of Pennsylvania law degree 1986. Former consultant for American Majority Election Integrity Project. Also for the Minnesota Voters Alliance. Age: 63.