Peggy Flanagan and former sports broadcaster Michele Tafoya are set to face off in November for Minnesota's open U.S. Senate seat. Republican U.S. Senate candidate and former sports broadcaster Michele Tafoya casts her vote at the Shepherd of Hills Church in Edina, Minnesota, on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026. After the race was called Tuesday night, Craig asked her supporters to back Flanagan, and said Tafoya would be “nothing more than a rubber-stamp” to Trump’s agenda.