MINNESOTA – 2022 GOP nominee for Minnesota governor Dr. Scott Jensen is launching a second bid to become the state’s top politician.
On “What’s On Your Mind?” with Scott Hennen on The Flag, the former state senator described how he saw the Republican Party in Minnesota from 1975 to 1995.
“We were the independent Republicans. We were a Republican party that valued independent thinking and it wasn’t ‘Get in line or shut up,'” Jensen explained.
While talking to Hennen, Jensen said he and his wife, Mary, did a lot of soul-searching and praying after losing the race for governor to Tim Walz by nearly eight points.
That included thinking of how the state government was run from 2020 to 2022 which Jensen calls “transformational for the state” including Walz calling a state of emergency during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We saw businesses locked down. We saw schools closed. We saw nursing homes which almost seemed for some like a prison setting where their loved ones,” Jensen said.
The other prominent Republican in the race for governor is businessman and veteran Kendall Qualls who lost the GOP nomination to Jensen in 2022.
Walz has not announced if he’s running for a unprecedented third term.
