MN GOP Endorses Former NBA Player Royce White for U.S. Senate
ST. PAUL (KVRR/FOX) — Minnesota’s Republican Party has tossed its support behind Royce White in his bid to oust Democrat Sen. Amy Klobuchar.
White is a former NBA player and Black Lives Matter protest leader.
At Saturday’s GOP convention in St. Paul, White received 67 percent of the vote on the first ballot to receive the endorsement.
White is one of several Republicans who were seeking the GOP nomination. The campaign for one of those candidates, U.S. Navy veteran Joe Fraser, told Fox that Royce as the nominee would only help Democrats.
“We’d like to congratulate the MNGOP on securing another term for Amy Klobuchar and Joe Biden. They literally couldn’t have picked a better candidate than Royce White to accomplish this goal,” said Fraser campaign spokeswoman Preya Samsundar.
The final candidates in November will be deteremined during the August 13 Minnesota primary.
White unsuccessfully sought the GOP nomination to challenge Rep. Ilhan Omar in Minnesota’s Fifth Congressional District during the 2022 election cycle.
Klobuchar was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006.
