LITTLE CROW GOLF RESORT, SPICER — As the poll closing hour approached Tuesday night, Michelle Fischbach was cheerful and hoping to get a seat in Congress for her birthday.
Fischbach, who turns 55 today, said she’s optimistic she’ll defeat longtime Congressman Collin Peterson in Minnesota's sprawling Seventh Congressional District.
Shortly after arriving Tuesday evening for her campaign watch party at the Little Crow Country Club in New London, Fischbach told reporters that she has worked hard during the campaign, including rallies in the district during the last couple days leading up to the election. "We had great turn-out and great enthusiasm so we're feeling really good,” she said.
Trump’s popularity in the Seventh District could help Fischbach’s chances of winning. “It is a Trump district,” she said, but added that her efforts to make personal connections with voters is what is important.
If Peterson, who is currently the chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, loses the race it will mean Minnesota farmers will lose a big voice in agriculture.
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Fischbach said if elected, her first request for a committee assignment would be to serve on the ag committee. “We have been talking to farmers across the district the entire time and so, continue to do that and make sure we’re talking to them about what they want and what they see that they need from the federal government,” she said.
Fischbach, who has aligned herself with President Trump’s position on tariffs with China, said she would continue to support that. “And I think the President will continue to negotiate with China to get a better deal for the farmers and for the United States,” Fischbach said.
If Joe Biden is elected president, Fischbach said she would use her skills of working across party lines that she used in the state Senate and with governors from both parties. “I understand how to work with both sides and in both the minority and the majority.”
Fischbach said she was going to watch the election returns with her family and other Republicans gathered in the reception room.
“We’d just like to start seeing the results,” she said.
