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(CNN) — Democrat Xp Lee will win a special election to fill the vacant seat of the late Democratic state Rep. Melissa Hortman , according to a call from the Associated Press, just over three months after she and her husband were fatally shot in what Gov. Tim Walz at the time called “a politically motivated assassination” and less than a week after the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

The election in Minnesota’s state House District 34B determines the balance of the chamber, which stands at a very slim 67-66 Republican majority. With Lee’s win in this solidly blue district in the Brooklyn Park suburb, the balance of power will again be tied at 67-67, which was where it stood before Hortman was killed. The Minnesota House previousl

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