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Joe Teirab spoke to Republican voters at a debate in Prior Lake’s Twin Oaks Middle School on Jan. 18.

 

 Photo by Michelle Griffith/Minnesota Reformer

Republicans got a straighter path to potential victory Saturday in what is expected to be Minnesota’s closest congressional race when GOP-endorsed candidate Tayler Rahm dropped out of a primary fight against the better-funded Joe Teirab, who already had tacit backing from key House leaders.

Rahm, a political newcomer and defense attorney from Burnsville, said in a statement that he was shifting gears to serve as a senior adviser to former President Donald Trump’s campaign in Minnesota, where Trump insists he can defeat President Joe Biden after coming close to carrying the traditionally Democratic state in 2016.

  

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