Michele Tafoya, the former NBC Sports sideline reporter who covered Sunday Night Football and Monday Night Football for decades before pivoting to conservative political commentary, won the Republican Senate primary in Minnesota Tuesday night with approximately 51 percent of the vote, defeating former Navy SEAL Adam Schwarze, who had the official state party endorsement, and former NBA player Royce White. Flanagan, a progressive, won the Democratic nomination over centrist U.S. Representative Angie Craig, a result that sets up a November matchup between a first-time Republican candidate and a progressive Democrat in a state that has not elected a Republican to statewide office since 2006.