Clay Masters

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The NPR Politics Podcast · Voters sent mixed messages in Tuesday's primaries · 12 Aug 2026 podcast

And I do want to know one other thing, too, that Tafoya was mentioning, and you're going to hear a lot about it.

I know the White House, especially Vice President J.D.

Vance, has been talking a lot about fraud.

And Minnesota is the state that they point to the most.

And Governor Tim Walz, his lieutenant governor, Peggy Flanagan, has been at the helm.

And this is going to be an attack that you hear everywhere.

time and time again, I think, for Michelle Tafoya throughout the remaining few months before the general election.

And I think party insiders for the Democrats here in Minnesota were very eager to have Angie Craig, the congresswoman who was seen as the more moderate, be the one that would go up against Michelle Tafoya.

Yeah, Mike Lindell was sucking up a lot of the oxygen in that primary race, and it was largely a three-way race between Lindell and the Speaker of the Minnesota House, Lisa Damuth, and Kendall Qualls, who was a businessman and had the endorsement of the Republican Party.

in Minnesota.

Lisa Damoth ultimately won yesterday, despite Trump having backed Mike Lindell, and also despite the fact that the Republican Party didn't endorse her as well.

And what's noteworthy about Lisa Damoth is that she has been at the helm of the Minnesota House of Representatives the last two years, where there has been an evenly split

Republicans and Democrats in that chamber.

So 67 Democrats, 67 Republicans.

And so she has had to make deals with the Democratic leader in that in the House of Representatives here in Minnesota to get anything passed.

And listeners might remember that the Democrat the first year in that was the late Melissa Hortman.

who was assassinated in the summer of 2025.

And so Lisa Damoth didn't have the backing of the president, didn't have the backing of the Republican Party, but had the financial advantage and had the kind of establishment lane and was able to beat out the Trump-backed MyPillow guy.

I mean, he faced questions about his residency requirements from his own party, the Republican Party of Minnesota.

So they were actively trying to get him to not be a candidate.

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