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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Johanna Chisholm

Minnesota state senate candidate delivered a speech while in labour, pausing for contractions

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On Saturday morning, Minnesota state senate candidate Erin Maye Quade awoke to a happy surprise that she and her campaign likely would’ve preferred to have arrived at least one day later: she was in labour, but it was also the morning of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party convention.

The 36-year-old was running for state senate, but she first needed to gain her party’s endorsement at that day’s convention.

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