 And he's right. Emmer was definitely not considered to be part of the establishment. So how did he get here? Yes. Emmer was known in St. Paul as sort of an insurgent who made his mark with brash rhetoric. And he charged his way to the 2010 governor nomination and, if you'll recall, came within a whisker of winning that fall. Here he is delivering his nominating speech to the Minnesota Republican Party Convention back in 2010.