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Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt kicked off a Republican gubernatorial debate by asking all five candidates if President Joe Biden won the 2020 election, and got a torrent of word salad in response.

Hewitt was among the moderators Wednesday night for the Minnesota Republican gubernatorial debate between candidates Dr. Scott Jensen, State Senator Paul Gazelka, State Senator Michelle Benson, Dr. Neil Shah, and Mayor Mike Murphy.

In what could become a defining characteristic of GOP debates going forward, Hewitt’s first question sent each of the candidates into what can only be described as a game of verbal Twister.

“In your opinion, did President Biden win a constitutional majority of the Electoral College? If yes, how definitive is your conclusion, and if no, could you please explain which states you think are in dispute,” Hewitt asked Jensen (apparently speaking from a part of Minnesota that has not yet been reached by the invention of the microphone).

“I don’t know. I don’t know. And I think that you have to take that attitude towards 2020,” Jensen replied, then launched into a lengthy response in which he promoted several types of voting restrictions.

Hewitt then asked each of the other candidates the same question in turn, and the closest that any of them got to saying that Biden won were two grudging passive-voiced acknowledgments that a result was declared.

Gazelka, in the middle of his lengthy answer about the unfairness of the

election, told Hewitt “we have the results we have and the Electoral College is the way that we determine the election. Each state does their own deal. I’m not a big fan of how that all played out.”

And Benson gave such a labyrinthine answer that Hewitt had to ask her again.

“Senator Benson, a follow-up. though. Did President Biden win?” Hewitt asked.

“He was certified by Congress as having won the Electoral College,” Benson replied.

President Biden was, indeed, the winner of the 2020 presidential election, despite a campaign of lies to the contrary.

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