Democrat Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan announced Thursday that he is stepping into Minnesota’s 2026 U.S. Senate seat race.
Flanagan promoted various far left policies in her state, including transgender people. ideology and abortion, It officially launched its Senate seat campaign on social media posts. The announcement of Flanagan’s campaign comes a week after Democrat Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith announced that she will not seek reelection in her second term.
“Today, I’m officially launching a US Senate campaign, going to DC and speaking loudly and clearly for everything in Minnesota,” Flanagan wrote post x.
“Through my career, I worked to meet my name,” Flanagan said. I said In another post. “As the Board of Education, the State Capitol and the Lieutenant Governor, I fought for the kitchen table issues that affect children and families.”
In her announcement, Flanagan promoted Native American ancestors and said, “I amN Ojibwe, my name means “speaking with a loud, clear voiced woman.” Flanagan likewise shared the Native American name while speaking at the 2024 Democratic National Convention.
“My name in Ojibwe language is Gizhiiwewidamoonkwe, or English. “Speak to a clear, loud voiced woman,” she says I said Audience in August. “I’m a member of White Earth Nation and my family is a wolf family.”
Flanagan helped establish something new American Indian Health Office In May 2024, at the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH). MDH promoted the cause of the left wing on its official Instagram account. Posts Content on young people and preference pronouns identifying transgender people. (Related: Kamala’s failed campaign team struggles to get back to the swamp)
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Flanagan’s candidacy comes inside Report Democrat Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz is considering bidding for the Open Minnesota Senate seat himself, but could also run for reelection as state governor.
Waltz repeatedly made inaccurate claims about his past in a failed vice presidential election along with former vice president Kamala Harris, who replaced former vice president Joe Biden at the top of the 2024 Democrat tickets. Initiatives he defended, including signatures; law The president urged in 2023, requiring schools to provide tampons in both girls and boys’ toilets Donald Trump And others call him “Tampon Tim.”
NPR/PBS/Maristo Opinion survey After Harris announced Waltz, her running mate discovered that the majority of Americans had never heard of him. Flanagan would have been in the first line to replace Waltz as governor of Minnesota if Harris Waltz’s campaign defeated Trump in the 2024 presidential election.
Flanagan has been Minnesota’s 50th lieutenant governor since January 2019 and is stubborn. advocate Due to abortion and gun control. Flanagan previously claimed that Minnesota is a good place to live if you’re white, and the russer who defeated the statue of Christopher Columbus at the Minnesota Capitol during the 2020 George Floyd Riot, Fox News I supported It has been reported.
July 2020, Flanagan I insisted Minnesota’s government was “created” to “remove”Ndigenous people.
“When I walk through the door to the Capitol, I take two breaths. The second breath is a breath of protection. But too many times, [it] It was created to eliminate, erase and silence us. And by ‘we’ we mean people of color and indigenous people,” Flanagan said in 2020.
“At the heart of all her work, she advances for children, working families, communities of colour and indigenous communities, and for Minnesotans, which have been historically serviced and underrepresented.” According to On the Flanagan website.
The 2026 Minnesota Senate race is expected to be even more competitive following Smith’s announcement of retirement. It is reportedly I’m considering taking part in the race. An early analysis of Minnesota Senate race in 2026 by a nonpartisan cuisine political report Fee A contest as a “probably a Democrat.”
The Minnesota Senate election will be held on November 3, 2026.
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