Non-major party candidates vie for U.S. Senate seat

There are two major party candidates battling it out right now in Minnesota's U.S. Senate race: GOP nominee Michele Tafoya and DFL nominee Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan.

But there are also three candidates running without major party backing: Rebecca Whiting as the Libertarian party’s candidate, Marisa Simonetti as an independent and Alycia Gruenhagen as a write-in candidate.

Unlike the major party nominees, these candidates don’t have a big organization helping their campaign with finances or volunteers. They don’t get the same amount of media attention. And often, their campaigns are spending in the low thousands of dollars compared to the millions spent by major party candidates.

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