The action in the governor's race shifts to Moorhead on Wednesday, where Gov. Mark Dayton, Republican Jeff Johnson and the Independence Party's Hannah Nicollet will meet for their second debate.
The debate at Hansen Theatre on the Minnesota State University Moorhead campus starts at 7 p.m. and goes 90 minutes. It's being sponsored by the Forum News Service and will be moderated by Don Davis, political reporter for the organization.
Dayton, Johnson and Nicollet met last Wednesday for their first debate in Rochester. Nicollet has been registered extremely low support in most polls of the race, but last week Dayton said he thought she should be invited to participate in every debate.
The Forum News Service belatedly invited Nicollet to Wednesday's debate after learning of a July poll that showed her with 11 percent support, a point above the Forum's threshold for participating.
After Wednesday, there are three more gubernatorial debates scheduled: Oct. 14 in Duluth, and Oct. 19 and Oct. 31 in St. Paul.
