Nov 2025–Present · Campaign Staffer
The campaign runs on three things: fraud, affordability, and the conditions that let businesses and families thrive. Minnesotans have watched money walk out the door while their own costs climbed. A state that can’t account for what it already collects has no standing to ask for more.
Demuth won the primary without the president’s endorsement and without the party’s. She won it with the people of Minnesota. Patrick played a small part in that. The credit belongs to the best team in the state and to a grassroots effort that outworked everyone.
Primary night reel, filmed and cut by Patrick for the campaign. Watch on LinkedIn ↗
Photographing candidate forums and press conferences, producing content from the trail, calling voters, and working the floor at the convention. The range has given him real insight into statewide operations from multiple angles.
One recurring project has been a string of short videos shot in towns across Minnesota, each built around a visit with Demuth: what the community is doing well, what it’s genuinely worried about, and how she’d lead on it. It’s a format built to do on camera what a deliberation does in a room, name a place’s strengths and its trouble honestly, then talk through a real way forward, one town at a time.
This is where the thread pulls together. Patrick believes Minnesotans want stronger, more connected communities, and that conservative governance, practiced pragmatically and compassionately, is how the state gets there: not by retreating from public life, but by taking basic needs seriously and building the kind of trust that only comes from showing up. It’s the same instinct behind his photography, his deliberation work, his writing on place and belonging and the Second Amendment, and his refusal to let political violence push people out of public life. A community only holds together if it stays open, secure, and worth belonging to, and someone has to do that work. Right now, that’s this campaign.
In the news
MinnPost · June 2026 · Ana Radelat · “Chaos at Minnesota conventions reignites calls for a new way of choosing candidates”
