EAST GULL LAKE, Minn. – State Senator Paul Gazelka, the majority leader, confirmed that he has coronavirus. Gazelka, R-East Gull Lake, said he is in quarantine and without major symptoms. He took the opportunity of announcing the diagnosis to restate the Republican view that Democrats have overblown the disease. “Like 99% of the people,” he said, he will make a full recovery.

Gazelka. Says Democrats exploiting COVID as a political to fault Republicans.