Snow falling across much of Minnesota, including the Twin Cities.

 for Minnesota’s primary election. On Aug. 13, in person voters will determine which candidates will be on the ballot for the general election on Nov. 5.

MPR News reached out to all candidates, providing a three-question survey for them to fill out and inform voters about who they are and their priorities if elected.

Here are the candidates running in DFL primary:  Ilhan Omar (incumbent), Abena McKenzie, Don Samuels and Nate Schluter.

Click on each question and scroll down to see the candidates’ responses.

Omar has familiar challenger in Minnesota's 5th but the race isn't playing out in same way

The only candidate for the GOP primary is Dalia Al-Aqidi.

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Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District candidates running for the DFL primary election include incumbent Ilhan Omar, Abena McKenzie, Don Samuels and Nate Schluter. Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District candidates running for the GOP primary election only include Dalia Al-Aqidi. 


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