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Posted on 01/18/2026 12:05:31 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Just days into 2026, Minnesota’s Democratic Gov. Tim Walz announced he would not run for a third term, citing his need to focus on a growing welfare fraud scandal — a surprise announcement that sent shock waves through the state.
Forty-eight hours later, a 37-year-old woman was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis, touching off protests, furious reactions from Democrats and a surge of even more federal immigration personnel to the area as part of President Donald Trump’s ongoing national crackdown.
This confluence of events has placed the national spotlight squarely on Minnesota — and scrambled the political climate at the outset of a critical election year with two statewide contests up for grabs. In addition to Walz, Democratic Sen. Tina Smith is also not running for re-election in 2026.
Republicans haven’t won statewide in Minnesota in two decades, and the broader political environment tends to favor the party that’s in the minority in Washington, D.C. But Minnesota Republicans think they may now have an opening, encouraged predominantly by the fraud controversy that’s hanging over Walz.
“Definitely it gives Republicans a boost and puts several races in play,” Minnesota Republican Party Chair Alex Plechash said, referring to the fraud allegations. “It helps paint a broader story about fraud and abuse so people can’t just sit back and say, ‘Oh, it’s nothing.’ It highlights, broadly, the flawed ecosystem of the Democrat Party here in Minnesota, which has had a lock on things for so long.”
A major focus of the Trump administration and Republicans has been the Justice Department’s yearslong fraud investigation that has involved members of Minnesota’s Somali community. Dozens of suspects were indicted in 2022, during the Biden administration, as part of an alleged $250 million fraud scheme surrounding the nonprofit Feeding Our Future.
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Uh oh. There’s been a scrambling in the Force.
On the one hand, there is deep craziness in MN, and why should we expect things to change? On the other hand, imagine what it was like when a consultant broke some bad internal polling news to Walz, bad enough for him to drop out. I dunno.
You have to actually prosecute fraud and insurrection or else you have nothing.
The Democrat-Farmer-Labor coalition of Minnesota, their version of Democrat Socialists, has been a pervasive single-party representation of Minneapolis-St. Paul city government for a couple of generations now. The Twin Cities have been able to dominate the overall Minnesota state politics for many years, much as Chicago dominates all the rest of Illinois. The machine has been in power for so long, they have forgotten, in their arrogance, that they should at least APPEAR to conform with the law.
Now that law is beginning to be quoted back at them, the Powers That Be in St. Paul are astonished that those laws still have any chance of being enforced, and lash out with a ferocity that would do justice to a cornered rat.
They’re gonna trade one crazy for another.
The deep question is as to whether the Minneapolis’sh-t willl give the people who elect democrats a clue.
Will the voters vote to continue down the toilet ?
Like Virginia and New Jersey, all the cheerful talk of a sensible rejection of leftists will end up with “big victories again for the Dems.”
At least in Minnesota.
Remember the totally obvious disqualification of Attorney General Jay Jones in VA by clear thinking people that was predicted? Called for shooting GOP people in the head in his social media posts.
He won.
He won just fine.
Well, they look flushed. Maybe it's the single digit temperatures. 🚽 🧻
“”citing his need to focus on a growing welfare fraud scandal””
When are we supposed to stop laughing? FOCUS? LOL!!
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