Candidate briefing
Peggy Flanagan is the Democratic-Farmer-Labor nominee for U.S. Senate in Minnesota. An Ojibwe organizer, she has been lieutenant governor since 2019 and served in the Minnesota House from 2015 to 2019.
In the August 11 primary she defeated Rep. Angie Craig, 59.0% to 39.4%, in one of the cycle’s clearest wins for an insurgent progressive over the party establishment. Craig conceded and endorsed her.
She faces Republican Michele Tafoya on November 3. The October Minnesota Poll showed Flanagan with a narrow lead. Our Revolution, Indivisible and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee have endorsed her. Why Political Revolution supports her: she beat the establishment pick on a pledge to take on corporate power, and Minnesota’s open Senate seat is now a national race.