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No GOP Senate endorsement yet: On to Round 8 in the wee hours

Process has become a stamina game

By Abby Simons

May 31, 2014 at 6:40AM

Minnesota GOP delegates will enter an eighth round of balloting early Saturday morning after neither of the two remaining candidates failed to pick up the required 60 percent of votes.

Here are the results:

Chris Dahlberg, 912 votes, 54 percent

Mike McFadden, 744 votes, 44.1 percent

No endorsement: 29

Blank ballots: 538

The bleary-eyed delegates are ready to enter the eighth round. Stay tuned.

about the writer

Abby Simons

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Abby Simons is the Minnesota Star Tribune's Public Safety Editor. Her team covers crime and courts across the metro. She joined the Minnesota Star Tribune in 2008 and previously reported on crime, courts and politics.