Somali Daycare CEO Wins Minn. House Seat Despite Fraud Scrutiny

James O’Keefe has hired attorney Chris Madel to fight charges that he committed two felonies during Minnesota’s primary elections.

In the week since Democrats won their most commanding victory in recent memory, the party’s so-called moderates have been eager to claim victory for their faction. Despite firebrand progressives winning Senate seats by healthy margins in states like Michigan and Minnesota, an advisor for the centrist think tank Third Way told the Financial Times that the “majority-makers were mainstream and centre-left Democrats.” The empirical argument here is...

Minnesota Governor-elect and Democratic U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar is promising a get-down-to-business agenda that will focus on making life in Minnesota more affordable and fixing a broken state system that continues to generate fraudulent spending.

MINNEAPOLIS — Months after thousands of federal agents descended on Minnesota, the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown remained a powerful force in the state’s election. It shaped voters’ choices, mobilized volunteers, took Republicans by surprise and reached far beyond the communities where the crackdown unfolded. An NBC national exit poll found that 58% of all voters — and 90% of ...

Peggy Flanagan had just been elected to the U.S. Senate when her husband offered a crowd of supporters in St. Paul a measure of the win’s symbolism for her people. As the first Native American woman ever elected to the U.S. Senate, he pointed out, Flanagan would be claiming a seat that belonged to some of Minnesota’s most celebrated political figures: Hubert Humphrey, Walter Mondale and Paul ...

Democrats flipped more than 500 state legislative seats and won control of at least a dozen legislative chambers, establishing new governing trifectas in Michigan, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Nevada.

Gov.-Elect Amy Klobuchar joins Almanac for her first live TV interview since the midterms.

MINNEAPOLIS — Michele Tafoya stood next to rows of golden corn in rural Le Sueur as she hosted the first news conference of her general election campaign for U.S. Senate. It was early October, and Tafoya had last convened the press on the day of her Republican primary victory — 55 days earlier. She scored a big-ticket guest for the event: Senate Majority Leader John Thune. Yet Thune’s message ...

MINNEAPOLIS — At a campaign stop in far-western Minnesota last year, two farmers approached Peggy Flanagan. They were Republicans who had previously voted for President Donald Trump. “Listen, we don’t agree with you on everything, but you’re a tough cookie,” they told her, “that’s why we’re here.” Looking back, Flanagan said, “that was when I felt like we could really win this thing.” Yellow ...