Republican challenger Michelle Fischbach won the election for the U.S. House of Representative District 7 seat from Minnesota Tuesday night defeating incumbent Collin Peterson. Peterson issued a statement on the election result Wednesday morning –
“I’d like to thank the people of the Seventh District for their support over the years. Serving them in Washington DC has been a great honor, and I respect their decision to move in a different direction. We ran a strong and positive campaign, but with the President winning this district by 30 points again, and the millions in outside money that was spent to attack me, the partisan tilt of this district was just too much to overcome.”
