The fight for Minnesota’s open U.S. Senate seat has actually pertained to an end, with Democrat Peggy Flanagan beating Republican Michele Tafoya Tuesday in a race that pitted a previous nationwide sports broadcaster versus among the state’s most extreme Democrat political leaders.
According to Decision Desk HQ, Flanagan got 54.59 percent of the vote compared to Tafoya’s 42.84 percent, with 73 percent of the vote counted.
Decision Desk HQ tasks Peggy Flanagan wins the MN United States Senate General Election #DecisionMade: 12:03 AM EST Follow live outcomes here: https://t.co/b3rJTttlEA https://t.co/vGRFguOed9– Decision Desk HQ (@DecisionDeskHQ) November 4, 2026
Tafoya, best understood for her years as an NFL sideline press reporter, dealt with Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan in the race to change retiring Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN), who revealed she would not look for another term.
Tafoya, who left the significantly left-leaning world of sports relaying to create a profession in conservative political commentary, went into the contest wishing to manage an upset Republican Senate success in a state that has actually backed Democrats in federal elections for the last couple of years.
Flanagan, on the other hand, is a hard-left radical who has actually acted as unsuccessful vice governmental prospect Tim Walz’s lieutenant guv because 2019. She has actually welcomed a few of the Democrat Party’s the majority of extreme positions, consisting of enabling biological males to contend in women’ sports and safeguarding gender-transition treatments for minors. In an August CNN interview, Flanagan declined to state whether she supported any minimum age constraints on such treatments, even when asked particularly about 10-year-olds.
Ballot regularly revealed Flanagan with the lead, although the size of that lead depended upon the survey. The last RealClearPolling typical revealed her prominent Tafoya by 5.2 portion points, 48.9 percent to 43.7 percent. A late October New York Times/Siena study offered Flanagan a tremendous 14-point lead, however an AtlasIntel survey performed throughout the last couple of days of the project discovered a much tighter two-point race. RealClearPolling ranked the contest as leaning Democrat, leaving Tafoya expecting a considerable Election Day upset.
Minnesota has actually not chosen a Republican to the U.S. Senate considering that Norm Coleman’s success in 2002.
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