Photo: #Robert Fitzgerald, 29, shown at the Independence Party convention last June. The Constitution requires senators to be at least 30 old. Fitzgerald will turn 30 after the election, but before he would be sworn in if elected.

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What makes Robert Fitzgerald run?


Independence Party candidate Robert Fitzgerald is barely old enough to be elected to the Senate, traverses the state in a vegetable-oil-powered bus, and runs with all the passion and energy of a frontrunner. Fitzgerald joins MPR's Midday as part of its "Meet the Candidates" series.

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