Months later, those confrontations remain the backdrop to Minnesota’s Democratic primary for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, which features establishment-backed U.S. Rep. Angie Craig and the more progressive Lt. Gov. Craig and nearly 60 other Democrats in the House and Senate voted for the bill early in 2025. But at the end of the year, as immigration officers descended on Minneapolis, that vote became a liability. Trump’s immigration operation, she says, was not enabled by her vote on the Laken Riley Act. “My primary opponent voted for Donald Trump’s immigration bill and was the only Minnesota Democrat to do so,” Flanagan told volunteers in St. Paul on Saturday.