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On this edition of Politics Friday, host Mike Mulcahy sits down with newly elected Senate Minority Leader Susan Kent, then we talk to House Majority Leader Ryan Winkler on the DFL’s push to legalize recreational marijuana. Then MPR News reporter Mark Zdechlik and two experts on the New Hampshire primary.
A small group of farmers in Iowa believe they’ve influenced the field of Democratic presidential candidates to focus more on climate change and how agriculture can be part of the solution to global warming.
On this edition of Politics Friday we consider the new leadership in the Minnesota Senate, the DFL's push to legalize recreational marijuana and the presidential race ahead of the New Hampshire primary.
The legislation comes in response to some voters who are concerned about Minnesota’s political parties knowing which party’s primary ballot they chose.
Some political observers say if Klobuchar remains the fifth-place finisher in Iowa, she won’t have the momentum she needs to do well in Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary.
The new lawmakers will take their seats when the Legislature convenes for its 2020 session on Tuesday. The outcomes don't change the balance of power in the Minnesota House, where Democrats will hold a 75-59 majority.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has had the last word on President Donald Trump's State of the Union speech. As Trump finished speaking Tuesday night, Pelosi ripped up her copy behind him on camera. After Trump left, Pelosi waved what remained of the printed speech to her family in the gallery. The moment echoed Pelosi's smirking clap last year in the same spot as the Republican president began his speech. But this time, he is on the brink of acquittal in a Senate impeachment trial, with the Republican Party behind him. The Democrats are in a difficult presidential nomination fight.
