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Tom Emmer

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Morning Wire
A ‘Billion-Dollar Fraud Machine’: Minnesota Scandal Explodes | 12.31.25

Here's what it really comes down to before we get into the just sheer massive numbers.

Morning Wire
A ‘Billion-Dollar Fraud Machine’: Minnesota Scandal Explodes | 12.31.25

And by the way, the breadth of this is not just one program.

Morning Wire
A ‘Billion-Dollar Fraud Machine’: Minnesota Scandal Explodes | 12.31.25

This is everywhere in this Tim Walz administration.

Morning Wire
A ‘Billion-Dollar Fraud Machine’: Minnesota Scandal Explodes | 12.31.25

But

Morning Wire
A ‘Billion-Dollar Fraud Machine’: Minnesota Scandal Explodes | 12.31.25

The facts are this.

Morning Wire
A ‘Billion-Dollar Fraud Machine’: Minnesota Scandal Explodes | 12.31.25

Today, there are roughly, by some estimates, about 80,000 Somali immigrants that are living in Minnesota.

Morning Wire
A ‘Billion-Dollar Fraud Machine’: Minnesota Scandal Explodes | 12.31.25

The vast majority of them live in Minneapolis or Hennepin County, an area called Riverside, Cedar Riverside.

Morning Wire
A ‘Billion-Dollar Fraud Machine’: Minnesota Scandal Explodes | 12.31.25

There's probably 50,000 to 60,000 of them right there.

Morning Wire
A ‘Billion-Dollar Fraud Machine’: Minnesota Scandal Explodes | 12.31.25

But then you'll have some in central Minnesota in my district, St.

Morning Wire
A ‘Billion-Dollar Fraud Machine’: Minnesota Scandal Explodes | 12.31.25

Cloud, some in Rochester, some in some other cities scattered around.

Morning Wire
A ‘Billion-Dollar Fraud Machine’: Minnesota Scandal Explodes | 12.31.25

Tim Walls,

Morning Wire
A ‘Billion-Dollar Fraud Machine’: Minnesota Scandal Explodes | 12.31.25

And Keith Ellison cannot get votes in greater Minnesota.

Morning Wire
A ‘Billion-Dollar Fraud Machine’: Minnesota Scandal Explodes | 12.31.25

Think about this.

Morning Wire
A ‘Billion-Dollar Fraud Machine’: Minnesota Scandal Explodes | 12.31.25

In the last reelection, Tim Walz outspent the Republican candidates 15 million to 1.7 million.

Morning Wire
A ‘Billion-Dollar Fraud Machine’: Minnesota Scandal Explodes | 12.31.25

And he won with 52 percent, just over 52 percent of the vote.

Morning Wire
A ‘Billion-Dollar Fraud Machine’: Minnesota Scandal Explodes | 12.31.25

If you look a little deeper, we have 87 counties.

Morning Wire
A ‘Billion-Dollar Fraud Machine’: Minnesota Scandal Explodes | 12.31.25

Tim Walz only won the 13 metro counties.

Morning Wire
A ‘Billion-Dollar Fraud Machine’: Minnesota Scandal Explodes | 12.31.25

We'll go a little farther.

Morning Wire
A ‘Billion-Dollar Fraud Machine’: Minnesota Scandal Explodes | 12.31.25

If you look at the 74 counties that he lost, he got 37% of the vote, including losing his former congressional seat by eight points.

Morning Wire
A ‘Billion-Dollar Fraud Machine’: Minnesota Scandal Explodes | 12.31.25

So what is this about?