DEBATE PREVIEW: During Tonight’s MN-01 Debate, Brad Finstad’s Record Selling Out Minnesotans Will Be on Full Display

Finstad has dodged town halls, refused to meet with his constituents, and voted the way of his donors, all while raising costs for Minnesota families.

Get the Facts on Finstad’s Record:

Finstad voted to raise costs on Minnesotans. 

• Finstad backs the tariffs and voted eight times to keep the tariffs in place, even though they are costing the average family in southern Minnesota $4,500 per year.
• Finstad voted six times to continue the Iran War, which has cost taxpayers over $40 billion and sent gas over $4.40 a gallon and diesel to $6.26.
• Finstad voted for the largest Medicaid cuts in history, even after fourteen Republican legislators – seven who represented parts of MN-01 – wrote to Finstad and warned him against cutting Medicaid.
• Finstad voted NO on the bill to extend health care tax credits, spiking health insurance premiums.

Finstad took money from the special interests, then voted their way.

• Finstad took thousands from Big Ag companies accused of increasing Minnesota farmers’ costs – including a Chinese company.
• Finstad took tens of thousands of dollars in campaign cash from corporations and the utility industries building and profiting from data centers, then voted to make it easier to build data centers in Southern Minnesota and to give them billions in tax breaks.
• Last year, Finstad voted twice to roll back Medicare’s ability to negotiate lower drug prices, raising drug costs by over $8 billion – and within two weeks of each vote, he took $2,000 from drug company lobbyists. In 2023, Finstad “accepted $1,500 from a lobbyist representing pharmacy benefit managers before voting against a bill that would impose price transparency reforms on the industry.”

Finstad failed to show up for Southern Minnesotans. 

• Finstad has never held a public, in-person town hall in more than four years in Congress. He accused Minnesotans of throwing a “hissy fit” for wanting to ask him questions and has been called out for being “notably absent.”
• Finstad failed to show up to a candidate forum for small businesses in Red Wing, while Jake showed up and took questions for an hour.
• KTTC reported that despite offering Finstad the opportunity to talk directly to voters about costs, “that meeting did not happen.” Even given the “timely” current events unfolding thanks to Finstad’s support for war in Iran, including “economic challenges facing farmers as the spring planting season gets underway, with the ongoing war in Iran impacting the costs of doing business.”

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