Michelle Tafoya

For years, Michelle Tafoya was a fixture on the NFL sidelines as an NBC sports reporter.

Now she's jumping into politics, her sights set on flipping a Democratic-held seat in Minnesota.

Tafoya was recruited to run by Senate Republicans as they worked to defend a slim majority.

Tafoya used a launch video to push fraud, immigration, crime, and transgender athlete restrictions as driving issues.

Our campaign is bigger than right versus left.

It's about confidence over corruption.

Tafoya joins an already crowded Republican field vying for the GOP nod.

And Democrats have a spirited race between the lieutenant governor and a swing district congresswoman for that nomination.

For NPR, I'm Katherine Richard in St.

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Michelle Tafoya is running as a Republican.

She covered primarily football over her broadcasting career.

She spent 11 years with NBC's Sunday Night Football crew, retiring after the 2022 Super Bowl.

She tells Fox News Digital, career politicians aren't getting the job done for Minnesota.

It's been 24 years since a Minnesota Republican was elected to the Senate.

The seat's opening up with Democrat Tina Smith not seeking a second term.

Chris Foster, Fox News.