Independent Candidate in MN Suspends Campaign After Realizing Democrats Were Using Him as a Spoiler

AP

A congressional candidate who said he was tricked by Democrats into running as a spoiler in a competitive House race in Minnesota suspended his campaign Thursday and endorsed his Republican rival.

Thomas Bowman, an independent running in Minnesota’s 2nd Congressional District, said he’d come to the realization that he was a “pawn” for Democrats deceptively working to split the conservative vote. More