Ex-NFL reporter launches GOP Senate bid, reveals how she will flip script on state's 'crisis of leadership'
EXCLUSIVE – MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. – Saying that she wants to bring "sanity" and "normalcy" back to her home state of Minnesota, former longtime TV sports reporter turned political activist and...
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EXCLUSIVE – MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. – Saying that she wants to bring "sanity" and "normalcy" back to her home state of Minnesota , former longtime TV sports reporter turned political activist and conservative commentator Michele Tafoya on Wednesday formally launched a campaign for the Senate in a bid to flip a Democrat-held open seat. "We are suffering a crisis here in Minnesota, and really, it's a crisis of leadership. We have career politicians who have brought us to this place, and they're not coming to save us. So, some of us are going to have to step up and clean up the mess ourselves," Tafoya said in an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, as she explained why she is running in the blue-leaning state. Tafoya is bidding to win the seat currently held by retiring Democratic Sen. Tina Smith, which national Republicans are eyeing as they aim to not only defend but expand their current 53-47 majority in the chamber in this year's midterm elections. The announcement by Tafoya came as Minnesota is ground zero in the national battle over President Donald Trump 's illegal immigration crackdown, with a massive deployment of agents by the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). DEMOCRATS DILEMMA: PROGRESSIVE PUSH TO ‘ABOLISH ICE’ SPARKS FRESH DIVIDE IN PARTY The arrest of thousands of migrants and the fatal shooting by an ICE agent of Renee Good, a Minnesota woman demonstrating against the immigration crackdown, has fueled anti-ICE protests in Minneapolis and across the country. And Minnesota is also reeling from a sweeping fraud scandal that at the beginning of the month forced Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic Party's 2024 vice presidential nominee, to drop his bid for re-election. WHAT TRUMP SAID ABOUT MINNESOTA AS HE LEADS WHITE HOUSE BRIEFING "We've got to decide not between right versus left, but right versus wrong, and we've got to decide, are we going to build up with the common sense that made this country great, or are we go…