(CNN) – U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, the Minnesota congresswoman who dropped a bid for the GOP presidential nomination in January, will run for re-election to Congress in 2012, her campaign said Wednesday.
Bachmann's political future had been in question ever since she announced she was suspending her presidential campaign on January 4, the day after finishing sixth in the Iowa caucuses. Bachmann has represented Minnesota's sixth district since 2007, but gained an outsized profile in the last three years for her vocal support of the tea party movement and her presidential bid.
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Bachmann's campaign spokesman, Guy Short, confirmed Wednesday she would seek reelection for her seat, noting there were "more details to come" on her official announcement.
Minnesota is still redrawing its congressional districts, making the contours of Bachmann's region uncertain. However, no other candidates have announced they are running for the seat. The district includes northern and eastern suburbs of the Twin Cities and has been represented by a Republican since 2003.
Bachmann serves on the House Financial Services Committee and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, which was noted frequently in her speeches the campaign trail.
CNN's Deirdre Walsh contributed to this report.
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good luck with that! i'm betting on the farm that MN will NOT re-elect her!
Who cares whether this dimwit runs again or not
How nice... So she wasted the time of the people of her district to do her business trying to be President... Then when she can't make it, she again wants the people of her district to trust her. Ok...
Hopefully her constituents will send her packing.
Perhaps the people of Minnesota are a bit wiser now? I know my friends who live there are!
My day is now complete knowing that Michelle Bachmann will be still be in the public arena. If we could just talk Herman Cain & Rick Perry into staying in the limelight the comedy would be complete.
With a 34% approval rating she should do very well!! NOT
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
Ya think Minnesotans will still want her? She hasn't embarrassed them enough?
More laughs from Saturday Night Live.
Good luck with that!!! You exposed yourself as a person not qualified to run for dog catcher. ( NO offense to the dog catchers)
Man I hope the People of Minnesota Had enough of this nut case. She shouldn't be a Congresswoman In any city.
Poor Minnesota
With the way congressional districts are drawn up you will have extremists from both parties in the house. The problem with extremists is when they try to expand out from their district they find the higher you try to go the less extreme the country is. We are a center country for the most part but unfortunately there are too many politicians and pundits out there who are extremists and think they are always 100% right.
Good luck with that. This reprobate should be bounced out on her ear.
I will pray for her. To lose!
Big surprise there. She's likely still got enough loons left in Minnesota who'll vote for her to get her lying self back to DC again.
I'm belived that buchman are right that presdient obama are nothing work his job for 3 year
I think she is wasting her time, she is way to late, she should have stayed, In the race instead of given up. And what is she bringing to the table another rep with know solutions to amercia problems .
PLEASE NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Shouldn't she retire soon?
Oh please. Haven't we heard enough from this one. Let's get some fresh blood in this district.......
If Minnesota has any intelligence, they will send this looney-toon packing.
Would you really want to re-elect someone who left you to do something else; run for another elected office? What does she represent and does it really work for America? I don't think she is really good for the country because she is so unwilling to listen to the other side.
Let's hope not! That would be a disaster!
hey batman please move back to Iowa and stay there.
What a waste of hot air! Geeze lady fade away, PLEASE!