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Throughout the short speech, Franken made the case that middle-class families in Minnesota and elsewhere needed help, saying that they “struggle with that feeling of insecurity—the sense that things can fall apart without notice...
...Franken said yesterday that he would challenge Republican Sen. Norman B. Coleman (R-Minn.) next year, confirming longtime rumors that he would mount a bid for the Senate. Before taking on Coleman, Franken will face off against wealthy trial lawyer Michael V. Ciresi in the Democratic primary...
...Though Franken left Minnesota to attend Harvard in the late 1960s and later worked for decades as a comedian in New York City, he moved back to Minnesota in 2005—in part, he has said to other news outlets, to make possible a run against Coleman...
...announcement, Franken borrowed a page from fellow Democrat Barack H. Obama, who graduated from Harvard Law School in 1991, by placing a video on his Web site in which he spoke about his family and explained his reasons for running...
...typical politician—I’ve spent my career as a comedian,” Franken said in the video. “Minnesotans have a right to be skeptical about whether I’m ready for this challenge, and to wonder how seriously I would take the responsibility that I’m asking you to give...