If Sen, Amy Klobuchar becomes Minnesota’s next governor, then she’ll be in the unique position of potentially appointing her own successor to the U.S. Senate. Klobuchar’s seat has been held by the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party since the turn of the century. Klobuchar has won each of her four Senate campaigns by double-digit margins. It’s likely that […]
House Speaker Lisa Demuth won the Republican Party’s nomination for governor on Tuesday, beating President Donald Trump’s endorsed candidate, Mike Lindell, as well as Kendall Qualls — the choice of GOP state convention delegates. Demuth is the first Republican woman to be nominated for governor and the rare Republican to beat a Trump-endorsed candidate this […]
Gov. Tim Walz signed an executive order Tuesday prohibiting state employees from using inside information to bet on prediction market sites like Kalshi and Polymarket. The executive order comes a day after a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction halting the implementation of a new Minnesota law that bans prediction markets. The law, which was […]
U.S. Rep. Angie Craig and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan traded critiques of one another Monday during their second debate as the duo face off in a competitive and sometimes acidic Democratic primary for U.S. Senate. Minnesota Public Radio politics editor Brian Bakst asked Craig and Flanagan about President Trump’s war in Iran, artificial intelligence regulations, […]
