NEW ADS, ENDORSEMENTS AND POLLING: Everytown for Gun Safety Victory Fund and Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund Announce Nearly $1.3 Million Investment in Minnesota Legislative Races, New Round of Endorsements, Polling, and Ads 

New Ads Launching As Part of Seven-Figure Effort to Elect Gun Sense Champions

New Polling Shows Gun Violence is Important Issue When Voting

to Majority of Minnesota Voters 

ST. PAUL — Today, Everytown for Gun Safety Victory Fund announced a nearly $1.3 million investment in Minnesota for the 2024 state legislative elections. Digital ads and direct mailers will run across targeted state legislative battleground districts and focus on highlighting Minnesota MAGA Republicans’ opposition to common-sense gun safety laws and the extreme guns everywhere agenda they will push in St. Paul. 

“Our polling confirms that the overwhelming majority of Minnesota voters are looking for candidates who will fight to keep our schools and our families safe from gun violence,” said John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun Safety. “Everytown is making sure voters know that Minnesota communities would be at risk if MAGA Republicans have total control of St. Paul.”

Watch one of Everytown’s new ads here:

Too Late

As a part of today’s announcement, Everytown released a new poll in Minnesota showing the power of gun safety for voters. A full memo is available here, and key findings include:

• Over 80% of voters said that a candidate’s position on guns is important to their vote.

• By margins of two-to-one, voters are also more likely to vote for a candidate who supports strengthening gun safety laws as opposed to a candidate who opposes more gun restrictions.

• There is broad-based, near-universal support for a range of gun safety policies, especially universal background checks, safe storage requirements, and prohibiting domestic abusers from possessing guns.

In 2022, Everytown went all-out to elect gun sense champions in state legislatures, clinching major victories in key states. In Minnesota, six Moms Demand Action volunteers won their elections, flipping the state Senate and delivering a gun sense trifecta. Governor Walz utilized his new gun sense trifectas to sign major gun safety legislation into law.

Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund is also announcing new endorsements for candidates in key battleground legislative seats:

• Mark Munger, State Representative, District 03B
• Dan Wolgamott, State Representative, District 14B
• Jeff Brand, State Representative, District 18A
• Sarah Kruger, State Representative, District 26A
• Zack Stephenson, State Representative, District 35A
• Kari Rehrauer, State Representative, District 35B
• Lucia Wroblewski, State Representative, District 41A
• Lucy Rehm, State Representative, District 48B
• Brad Tabke, State Representative, District 54A

Earlier this year, Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund announced endorsements of volunteers running for Minnesota legislature:

• Laurie Wolfe, State Representative, District 37A
• Carlie Kotyza-Witthuhn, State Representative, District 49B
• Julie Greene, State Representative, District 50A
• Kaela Berg, State Representative, District 55B
• Brian Cohn, State Representative, District 57B

In July, Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund and Victory Fund announced a $45 million electoral program and the launch of a new grassroots voter contact program to help elect gun sense candidates and defeat gun extremists up and down the ballot in key swing districts and states. Everytown’s efforts will focus on young voters on college campuses, voters of color, and suburban women in Arizona, California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Last month, Everytown for Gun Safety Victory Fund and Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund announced a record $7.5 million investment to train and elect Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action volunteers, including many running in key races across the country.

This is an independent expenditure prepared and paid for by Everytown for Gun Safety Victory Fund, gunsensevoter.org. It is not authorized by, coordinated with or approved by any candidate or candidate’s committee nor is any candidate responsible for it.