I think democrats feel Franken’s senate seat is a save one for them. They’re just hoping to get the Alabama seat that Roy Moore is campaigning for.
They’re looking to pick up the senate seat from Alabama while feeling safe in Minnesota. If republicans stood a change in Minnesota, democrats would NEVER be asking Franken to leave.
The governor is an arch-leftist socialist Democrat, so they know whoever he appoints will be one of them. But there is a special election in 2018 to fill out the term.
Watch the name Sue Jeffers.