Overview

• Speaking in Minneapolis, Sen. John Hoffman made his first in-person public remarks since he and his wife were shot in June, receiving a standing ovation from DNC members.
• He called for “governance over grievance,” warned that dehumanizing rhetoric fuels radicalization, and declared, “terror in the night is not legislative reform.”
• Hoffman said he is recovering from nine gunshot wounds after three weeks in the ICU and noted his wife Yvette sustained eight gunshot wounds.
• Democratic leaders elevated the late Melissa Hortman’s “LFG” mantra as a unifying call to action, with tributes from DNC Chair Ken Martin and other Minnesota officials.
• Prosecutors say the accused attacker, Vance Boelter, kept a hit list naming Democrats and visited additional DFL lawmakers’ homes on the night of the shootings.