Overview
- Ellison secured re-election in the Nov. 3 vote, earning a third four-year term to continue leading the state attorney general’s office.
- The race was narrowly contested and heavily financed, with outside groups spending more than $12 million through mid-October and additional six-figure ad buys into late October.
- Ellison’s campaign stressed affordability, public-safety measures and a record of fraud enforcement while his office touted over 350 Medicaid fraud convictions won under his tenure.
- Challenger Ron Schutz ran a relatively low-profile campaign focused on fighting fraud, backing law enforcement and restricting transgender athletes from girls’ sports, but he failed to unseat the incumbent.
- Ellison’s win preserves an AG office that acts as a national litigator for the state by bringing suits against federal policies and corporations, a role that will keep Minnesota involved in multi-state climate and consumer cases.