Michele Tafoya Is Giving Democrats Nightmares in Minnesota Senate Race

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Thanks to high-profile Senate races in states like Michigan, Maine, and Texas, the Minnesota race featuring GOP nominee and former sportscaster Michele Tafoya and Democratic Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan has received little national attention.

Tafoya, it seems, is using that to her advantage, appearing to prefer that the race not become a nationwide spectacle with big-name endorsements, flashing lights, and agenda-driven reporters from legacy media outlets trying to play cheerleaders for Democrats and run the gotcha games they typically run with Republican candidates.

In doing so, she’s been able to keep her focus squarely on Flanagan, who has been running with the baggage of the myriad fraud scandals on her back that she keeps trying (and failing) to lay solely at the feet of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D).

But Tafoya has been relentless, hammering Flanagan over the fraud in interviews, public appearances, campaign ads, and social media posts like these:

Tafoya has kept it simple, with her message being: Look all around you, Minnesota voters. Has one-party rule in your state served you well?

It’s not about red versus blue, she tells voters as she waves the independent candidate banner. It’s about right versus wrong.

Tafoya’s persistence appears to be paying off, as she’s been within the margin of error of Flanagan in nearly every poll over the last month and a half, with some more or less statistical ties.

“Believe it. Minnesota is in play for Republicans,” argues Townhall.com columnist Dustin Grage:

There’s even one more recent than those, from Big Data, showing Flanagan at 46% and Tafoya at 44%:

Flanagan, meanwhile, has done herself no favors:

Another area Tafoya has hammered Flanagan on is education:

Industrial-scale welfare fraud isn’t the only issue boosting Tafoya’s chances. In a small gathering recently in Manhattan, she noted that fewer than half of the kids in Minnesota can read or do math at grade level — a charge backed up by recent new data from the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments. State education officials blamed disruptive deportations of illegal immigrants by the Trump administration for the weak test results, but that won’t hold up. Passing the buck is convenient politically, but it doesn’t explain why the state’s children performed almost as poorly the year before.

Tafoya made her full case to voters in an opinion piece published last week by the Duluth News Tribune. But perhaps her best argument was made during a recent interview with Fox Business host Larry Kudlow:

We know that billions and billions of dollars left this state under her watch, along with Tim Walz. She’s tried to push the responsibility to the governor. I’m sorry, she was the lieutenant governor, while all of that happened, and while test scores plummeted, and while crime skyrocketed, and while taxes went up.

So people here in Minnesota are hurting; they’re looking at their pocketbooks, and they’re looking at their paystubs, and they’re saying, “I’m paying all these taxes to be here in Minnesota. And my governor and lieutenant governor and AG couldn’t keep that money in the state for people who needed it [but] didn’t get it?” They let it walk, and Peggy Flanagan is asking for a promotion to the Senate? At least Tim Walz had the sense to get out of his race.

Watch:

Keep your eye on this one.

– Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via X. –

 

 

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