However, the state's high school graduation rate has improved since And Minnesota has the highest ACT scores in the nation. Meanwhile, 9. In part, that trend is the result of cuts Pawlenty made to state-subsidized health insurance.
On the campaign trail, Pawlenty promised to curb spending without raising taxes. But aside from the economic plan he released a few weeks after announcing his campaign, Pawlenty offered few details about how he would manage his administration. Just as they did during the gubernatorial election, Pawlenty's detractors tried to paint him as a flip-flopper.
Critics pointed to his previous support for a cap-and-trade plan as evidence that Pawlenty is ideologically malleable. And his flirtation with a plan to create health care exchanges also received attention.
Other analysts contend that Pawlenty was too nice; he lacked the fiery persona that has made his competitors, particularly the other Minnesota Republican running for office, Rep. Michele Bachmann, so appealing to the growing number of tea party conservatives in the Republican party. Indeed, it appears that Pawlenty had a hard time developing a stand-out persona during the campaign, instead trying to be all things to all Republicans - a reason why his bid for the White House fizzled, said political scientist Dennis Goldford of Drake University.
And when the populist rhetoric didn't work when competing with Bachmann, Goldford said, Pawlenty went full circle back to his position as an establishment candidate. On Aug. Clifford Hurst, a member of Pawlenty's New Hampshire steering committee, was on the call.
You make MPR News possible. Individual donations are behind the clarity in coverage from our reporters across the state, stories that connect us, and conversations that provide perspectives. Prior to McCain's selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin , Pawlenty had been mentioned in the press as a possible Republican vice presidential nominee for the presidential election.
Pawlenty ran for re-election in He won the Republican Party gubernatorial straw poll on March 7, [30] and received In that election he and his running mate, then-incumbent lieutenant governor Carol Molnau , defeated challengers Sue Jeffers and Ruth Hendrycks. Pawlenty was first elected Governor of Minnesota in , though he was initially discouraged by party leaders from running for the office. He lost the statewide gubernatorial straw poll to Brian Sullivan, [33] but was nominated at a drawn-out statewide Republican Party Convention, after which Sullivan conceded.
Pawlenty campaigned on a pledge not to raise taxes to balance the state's budget deficit, to require visa expiration dates on driver's licenses, a 24 hour waiting period on abortions, implementing a conceal-carry gun law, and to the state's education system. We and Molnau captured Pawlenty endorsed Republican Marco Rubio during the presidential primaries. After Donald Trump became the apparent Republican nominee, Pawlenty said that he would support his party's nominee, and he appeared on CNBC to voice support for Trump based on economic issues.
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