US election: winning legislative candidate had died from Covid 19

A legislative candidate from the state of North Dakota was elected despite dying last month due to complications from Covid 19.

David Andahl, 55, won the June primary over incumbent Governor Doug Burgum, but died on October 5.

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His mother, Pat Andahl, told the Bismarck Tribune at the time her son had been admitted to the hospital with the coronavirus disease and died after being ill for about four days.

Pat Andahl said her son had been “very careful” about the pandemic and was passionate about the idea of ​​serving in government.

“He had a lot of feelings for his county … and he wanted to make things better, and his heart was in agriculture. He wanted better things for the farmers and the coal industry.”

Andahl and his fellow District 8 House candidate Dave Nehring won Republican endorsement and voter nominations to defeat one of North Dakota’s most powerful legislators, Republican Jeff Delzer, chairman of the Appropriations Committee of the camera.

The June primaries caught the attention of Burgum, a Republican, who donated more than $ 1.8 million to a political action committee that successfully targeted Delzer’s seat.

Delzer did not advance to the November 3 general election and told the Bismarck Tribune that he thought the governor’s influence in the race was not correct.

Before the 2019 Legislature met, Delzer led a rule change that altered how lawmakers viewed Burgum’s proposals. Burgum later said that he felt his executive budget had been “thrown away.”

Senator Howard Anderson Jr., R-Turtle Lake, is running unopposed for the District 8 Senate seat. District 8 covers a swath of the state east and north of Bismarck.

North Dakota health officials on Tuesday reported 503 new cases of Covid-19, three more deaths related to the coronavirus and another increase in hospital admissions, which have now surpassed 100 for six consecutive days.

There have been 739.1 new cases per 100,000 people in North Dakota over the past two weeks, ranking first in the country for new cases per capita, according to the CovidTracking Project. North Dakota has confirmed 24,464 virus cases since the start of the pandemic.

– AP