Michele Tafoya's debate takedown of Peggy Flanagan over Minnesota's estimated $9 billion fraud scandal has reshaped the Minnesota Senate race.

Flanagan’s maternal grandfather, John Jacob Hartmann, who died in 1983, spent more than 30 years in Minnesota mental hospitals, escaped psychiatric custody and became a suspect in killings that stretched across multiple states.

Reports detail how MN Senate candidate Peggy Flanagan’s grandfather spent decades in psychiatric care and was suspected in four killings.

We chose six key topics for the 2026 midterms: The gubernatorial race that will choose the state's first woman governor. How another trifecta could happen and what's happened in the past. Fraud and its impact on election debates. Who is running for state auditor and what would they do.

Decades-old court documents and newspaper records involving the maternal grandfather of Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan have surfaced in the state’s U.S. Senate race. Flanagan, a Democrat,

Flanagan is currently leading Tafoya by 2.6 percentage points in the race, according to the RealClearPolitics polling aggregator.

The GOP is pursuing its first Minnesota Senate win since 2002 as Democrats face fraud and immigration battles.

Trump repeated his false assertion that he won in Minnesota three times in the past three presidential elections.

The U.S. Senate race in Minnesota has candidates from the two major parties campaigning hard to win the seat, but there are also three candidates without major party backing on the ballot.