State Fair shuts down Matt Little's world handshake record attempt

You may have heard about Matt Little, the congressional candidate trying to break a record for most handshakes by a politician in eight hours. He started his record setting attempt, but then the state fair reportedly stepped in and kind of broke things up about an hour and 15 minutes in. We were at around 2000 handshakes. We were on track to beat the record. Yeah, they shut us down. They shut us down. We're not. We're still trying to figure out why you know, they sent us a rule. Um, but they were saying we were interfering with the state fair. Fair officials tell Fox nine little was breaking rules surrounding behavior, activity and soliciting. Little says he still set another handshake record though, shaking 57 hands in 17 seconds. He says the intent behind the record was a record attempt was to have some fun at the fair that anyone can enjoy no matter their political perspective. There's a lot of pride with the Minnesota State Fair. There's a lot of pride just in Minnesota. So a big part of our goal since everything's so divided and like every single argument you have with people that disagree with this is so heated. We just thought it was a nice thing to bring people together at the Minnesota get together. The great Minnesota get together. Little says he'll try a different time for that record number of handshakes in eight hours. Democrat Matt Little is running for Minnesota's second congressional seats currently held by Representative Angie Craig. His opponent is Republican Eric Pratt, who currently serves in the Minnesota State Senate and has done that since 2023. Turning our