Jennifer Carnahan announced March 14 she’s running to represent the U.S. congressional district her husband represented before he died. “I am used to campaigning in southern Minnesota with my husband, but I know he is looking down on me today and is proud to see I am keeping my promise to run for his seat and to complete his term in Congress,” Carnahan, a former chairwoman of the Minnesota Republican Party, said in a statement. Rep. Jim Hagedorn (R-Minn.) died at age 59 about one month before Carnahan officially launched her bid. Hagedorn, whose cause of death has not been confirmed, was in the middle of his second term representing Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District. The winner of an upcoming special election will serve in Congress until January 2021, unless they win the next regular election in November. Carnahan said that her husband’s dying wish was for her to run to …