State Rep. Kurt Bills is the Minnesota Republican Party's pick to face U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar in the November election. The first-term Republican nabbed the endorsement to challenge the Democratic incumbent after two ballots at the Minnesota GOP Convention Friday in St. Cloud.

Neither Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., or her Republican challenger Kurt Bills brought up new issues in the last debate of Minnesota's U.S. Senate race Sunday night at St. Paul's Fitzgerald Theater -- the fourth and final debate between the two before Election Day.

DFL Sen. Amy Klobuchar's opponent Kurt Bills is pointing to report on the conservative Daily Caller website that suggests Klobuchar, former Hennepin county attorney, had enough evidence to prosecute now-convicted Ponzi scheme leader Tom Petters but declined to prosecute, MPR reports. Her re-election campaign says the allegations made in a story on the website are "inaccurate."

At an MPR-hosted debate Sunday, Republican challenger Kurt Bills had pointed words for Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., who holds a big lead in polls. "When you're sitting here as a Democrat in the United States Senate from Minnesata, and you're so well liked and you have these numbers, why are you not leading?" Bills asked Klobuchar.

Just moments after the polls closed in Minnesota, the U.S. Senate race was projected for incumbent Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., in her race with GOP challenger Kurt Bills, CBS News reports. She won with about 65 percent of the vote to Bills' 30 percent.

Republican Kurt Bills goes into the the final weeks of his campaign for U.S. Senate against Sen. Amy Klobuchar with a meager $68,262 in the bank compared to Klobuchar's campaign that has $4.8 million on hand.

On Friday, Republicans are expected to endorse a candidate to run against DFL Sen. Amy Klobuchar. Three are vying for the spot: Dan Severson, Pete Hegseth and Rep. Kurt Bills. MPR News this week examined what each of the candidates proposes to do about the nation's budget deficit.

In an hour-long debate hosted by Minnesota Public Radio on Thursday, DFL Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Republican challenger Kurt Bills mixed it up to hooting and cheering supporters on both sides. Bills sharply criticized the incumbent's stances and his fans booed her, and she shot back with pointed words of her own.