As Election Day nears, it's likely your mailbox is filled with letters and mailers encouraging you to vote, sometimes for a specific party or just in general. But a certain type caught our attention.

With new candidates on the Democratic ticket and former president Donald Trump atop the Republican ticket for a third time, a new Minnesota poll shows Kamala Harris with an edge. Coming up Friday at noon,

"This November, Minnesotans will rally behind President Trump after living under the failed leadership of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz for the past four years," GOP spokesperson Liz Huston said in a statement to Newsweek. "Minnesota families are being devastated by Democrat-induced inflation, open borders and a surge in crime across the state."

Half of likely voters said they are highly confident that votes will be counted accurately in November, and nearly a third more said they were moderately confident.

Nearly eight in 10 Minnesotans surveyed for a new MPR News, KARE 11 and Minnesota Star Tribune poll have high to moderate confidence of an accurate vote count in the November election. They’re more split over the safeguards around absentee and mail-in voting.

Campaign finance filings show donations also surged in swing states when Harris picked Walz as her running mate.

This will be the third debate this election cycle without the rules and format decided by the Commission on Presidential Debates. The rules and format in the past two debates were

(THE CONVERSATION) Since Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris selected Tim Walz as her running mate in August 2024, political commentators have offered various takes on Walz – is he pragmatic or progressive, centrist or radical, a grassroots lefty or a mainstream Democrat?

Candidates in two Minnesota House races have their parties misprinted on ballots handed out to early voters in two counties.

Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz will attend the Michigan-Minnesota football game Saturday as part of a campaign stop in Ann Arbor.