Minnesota Senate Race

By Don Gonyea,

Published November 2, 2002 at 11:00 PM CST

President George W. Bush is campaigning in Minnesota for Republican challenger Norm Coleman. Coleman hopes to capture the Senate seat held by the late Democrat Paul Wellstone. Host Steve Inskeep talks to NPR's Don Gonyea and NPR's David Welna about the race.

Don Gonyea

You're most likely to find NPR's Don Gonyea on the road, in some battleground state looking for voters to sit with him at the local lunch spot, the VFW or union hall, at a campaign rally, or at their kitchen tables to tell him what's on their minds. Through countless such conversations over the course of the year, he gets a ground-level view of American elections. Gonyea is NPR's National Political Correspondent, a position he has held since 2010. His reports can be heard on all NPR News programs and at NPR.org. To hear his sound-rich stories is akin to riding in the passenger seat of his rental car, traveling through Iowa or South Carolina or Michigan or wherever, right along with him.

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Steve Inskeep

Steve Inskeep is a host of NPR's Morning Edition, as well as NPR's morning news podcast Up First.

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David Welna

David Welna is NPR's national security correspondent.

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