Mike Hatch says he will withdraw from Minnesota attorney general race

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Former Attorney General Mike Hatch, who filed to run for his old job Tuesday, said Wednesday he is pulling out of the race.

“I didn’t know so many people would go in,” said Hatch, who listed three of the five other DFL candidates as people he would support. “If I knew they all were going to jump in, I would have saved 300 bucks.”

U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, state Rep. Debra Hilstrom, former Minnesota Commerce Commissioner Mike Rothman, former Ramsey County Attorney Tom Foley and DFL-endorsed Minneapolis lawyer Matt Pelikan also filed to run Tuesday. The mass entrance of DFL candidates into the race followed Attorney General Lori Swanson’s announcement that she was not running for re-election and would instead seek the governor’s office.

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