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Everyone Might be Sleeping on Minnesota

Could the Senate race in the blue state throw off Democrats’ majority plans?

Peggy Flanagan, the lieutenant governor of Minnesota

The nightmare scenario for national Democrats would be that they manage to flip Senate seats elsewhere, including long-shot battlegrounds, and still miss out on a majority because they lost a race in Minnesota, their home turf. (Abbie Parr/AP)

By Chase Pellegrini de Paur

October 28, 2026 10:38 a.m.

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