Moderate Democrats who lost a string of competitive elections to progressive candidates pulled off a surprise victory in Wisconsin’s gubernatorial primary. Crowley heads to the general election where he will face Rep. Tom Tiffany, a 2020 election skeptic who was endorsed by President Donald Trump. Lindell’s second-place finish also shows how thoroughly Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election have become embedded in Republican politics. In the Democratic Senate primary, Walz’s lieutenant governor, progressive Peggy Flanagan defeated Rep. Angie Craig in a pitched fight over the state’s response to a billion-dollar fraud scandal while Flanagan and Walz were in office. Tafoya, whose senate campaign did not respond to the Minnesota Star Tribune when it asked about the 2020 election recently, won the primary with 52% of the vote, according to the AP.