August 12, 2026

Michele Tafoya, the former NFL sideline reporter turned GOP firebrand, has seized Minnesota’s Republican Senate nomination and now heads into a brutal showdown for an open U.S. Senate seat against Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan. The race is already loaded: Democrats have not lost a statewide office in Minnesota since 2006, Republicans are banking on a fraud scandal to crack the blue wall, and Tafoya is making opposition to transgender women in women’s sports a centerpiece as she blasts “career politicians” and promises change.

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