The Fluence Brief: The GOP Minnesota Senate Race

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Twenty-three days into the new year and we are drinking Minnesota politics out of a firehouse. The “top of the ticket” shifts with Gov. Tim Walz announcing he wasn’t running, the 99.9% likelihood of Sen. Amy Klobuchar announcing for Governor in the coming days – tell us it’s not going to slow down.

We’re less than 2 weeks from caucuses, and three weeks until the legislative session. The content will keep coming, and we’ll do our best to ensure MNSider subscribers are the first to know the dynamics of the 2026 election.

In case you missed it, we launched the Fluence Election Tracker today, we’ll watch all the races, and ensure you have the data an insights across Minnesota to follow this very dynamic and certainly unpredictable election year in Minnesota.

Here’s a link the the tracker: https://www.fluencelectiontracker.com/

It’s cold this weekend, might as well dig in on the signals when the noise is SO loud.

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An inside look at the MN GOP Senate Race

Let’s just assume on some level there’s going to be a competitive Republican primary for the US Senate and possibly for Governor.

History tells us that the candidates who et the endorsement have the advantage in the primary. However, after disappointing candidate performances in 2022 and 2024 at the top of the ticket, and very close in down ballot statewide races – party leaders are not afraid of a well-funded competitive primary. Insider power brokers in both the DFL and GOP would like to kill the caucus system – and have a June primary.

That’s not going to happen in 2026 – so the caucuses will be the first peek at the mood of the parties. Including straw polls. (Sign-up for MNSider to read more)