Minnesota Public Radio reports.With 100 percent of the vote in, the AP declared Craig the winner with 48.2 percent, while Kistner had 46 percent and Legal Marijuana Now Party candidate Adam Weeks 5.8 percent.Weeks died in September, and another candidate stood in for him, but his name remained on the ballot.
In October, a friend of his shared a voicemail from May with the Minneapolis Star Tribune in which Weeks said he was recruited by Republicans to “pull votes away” from Craig and therefore help Kistner.“I swear to God to you, I’m not kidding, this is no joke,” Weeks said in the message to friend Joey Hudson, according to the Star Tribune. “They want me to run as a third-party, liberal candidate, which I’m down.