Each of the DFL candidates for Minnesota governor can make a case

U.S. Rep. Tim Walz bagged another endorsement last week, this one from carpenters, which continues a string of building-trades support that includes the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 49 and the Laborers.

His path to the DFL nomination for governor is easy to discern: money, endorsements and organization, all of which propelled him to a caucus straw poll victory earlier this month.

But he's by no means the only candidate with a path. After all, 70 percent of caucusgoers supported someone other than Walz or no one at all.

The campaign of state Rep. Erin Murphy, DFL-St. Paul, thinks that as the pool of delegates is winnowed, her position will become stronger despite a third-place showing at the caucus. Her campaign cites DFL data showing that after 34,000 came to caucus night, fewer than 20,000 will participate in Senate district conventions, which are the next round on the way to the state convention. (Think of it as the semifinals.)

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