Here are most of the 2020 candidate pins offered for sale at the DFL booth at the 2019 Minnesota State Fair. I was able to get all the pins from the candidate collection except for the Harris and Booker pins. The Warren pin is not pictured here, because I got it separately. The full set appears to consist of 21 pins (my photo is minus the Warren, Booker, and Harris pins). I am unsure if the Klobuchar pin was part of the set or offered separately at her campaign booth. If the Amy ferris wheel pin is part of the set, then that would bring us up to 22 candidate pins.
The hardest to get pin out of this set is probably the Admiral Joe Sestak pin. Most collectors have not been able to secure an Adm Joe pin from the campaign itself. I'm not even sure if the campaign has pins. All these pins are union-made by Minnesota shop RJFKRAMER. They all feature the same union bug on the face and most have an RJFK sticker with a union bug on the back. The Sestak pin is the only pin without a union bug on the face. It leads me to suspect it was a very late addition to the set offered at the fair.
Six of the candidates featured in this set have already dropped out as of this post. Gillibrand, Inslee, Hickenlooper, Beto, Ryan, and Moulton. Several of the candidates that jumped into the race in the last several weeks of this post were not in the race during the time of the fair: Patrick & Bloomberg (seems like he's still deciding).
Some of the other pins from the booth are pictured below.
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