MOORHEAD 鈥� U.S. Rep. Michelle Fischbach announced on Tuesday, Feb. 15, she will run for reelection in 2022.
Fischbach, a former lieutenant governor and state senator, defeated longtime Democratic incumbent Collin Peterson in the 2020 election to become the representative of Minnesota's Seventh Congressional District, which covers a large part of western Minnesota, from the Canadian border to the southern part of the state. The district includes the cities of Fergus Falls, Moorhead and Willmar.
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Fischbach is serving her first term in the U.S. House of Representatives.
No other candidate is seeking the Republican nomination for November's general ballot. Three candidates are vying for Democratic-Farmer-Laborer endorsement: Mark Lindquist, Reed Olson and Ernest Oppegaard-Peltier. Travis Johnson is the sole candidate who has declared for the Libertarian primary.
