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Flanagan wins Minnesota Senate primary as progressive wave holds
Flanagan wins Minnesota Senate primary as progressive wave holds
Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, a progressive backed by Senator Bernie Sanders, defeated moderate Congresswoman Angie Craig in the state's Democratic US Senate primary on Tuesday. The result follows Abdul El-Sayed's win…
The Story in Brief
Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, a progressive backed by Senator Bernie Sanders, defeated moderate Congresswoman Angie Craig in the state's Democratic US Senate primary on Tuesday. The result follows Abdul El-Sayed's win in Michigan's Senate primary last week and adds to pressure on Democratic leaders confronting a leftward shift. Flanagan will face Republican Michele Tafoya, a former NFL reporter who won a nine-candidate GOP field.
In Wisconsin, Democratic voters go to the polls on Tuesday in a chaotic governor primary between progressive Francesca Hong and Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley, who has outgoing Governor Tony Evers's backing. The Republican Governors Association has spent nearly USD 3.6 million on ads highlighting Hong's liberal policies, which Democrats say is a bid to boost an easier opponent for Republican Tom Tiffany in November.
The Indian Opinion
The progressive wave in Democratic primaries is real, but pundits calling it a party-wide shift ignore an inconvenient fact: the establishment candidates in Michigan and Minnesota were incumbents or well-funded moderates, not party darlings. Wisconsin's messy race, with dropouts, a Republican-funded ad war, and absentee votes locked in for vanished candidates, is a better test of whether the left can win the middle ground. The actual question for November is whether Hong or Crowley can beat Tiffany, not who wins the primary.
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