The GOP is painting the ruling DFL as a party of fraud and lawlessness. If facts matter, Republicans will be back in power in the blue state.
The GOP is painting the ruling DFL as a party of fraud and lawlessness. If facts matter, Republicans will be back in power in the blue state.
It might be hard to believe but there are sane people in Minnesota. And between the Somali fraud scandal and the anarchists in Minneapolis, there might just be enough of them to turn the blue state red in November’s election.
“Some of us look at what we’re seeing in our state government’s executive branch leadership and wonder if a sanity test needs to start to happen pretty quick,” State Sen. Steve Drazkowski, a Republican who represents southeast Minnesota’s 20th Senate District, told me this week on The Vicki McKenna Show.
Drazkowski and several of his Senate Republican colleagues authored a bill last year that would define Trump Derangement Syndrome as a mental illness. They describe the disorder as “the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal persons that is in reaction to the policies and presidencies of President Donald J. Trump.”
It’s hard to argue that the Marxist meltdown in the Twin Cities over the past several weeks isn’t an intense bout of TDS, assisted and funded by many out-of-state sufferers. And the liberals in power, particularly scandal-plagued Gov. Tim Walz, have stoked the flames of madness — ceding Minneapolis to anarchists.
Republicans remain hopeful Minnesota’s long blue fever will break at the polls in this year’s midterms. ‘Enabling Criminals’
They haven’t won a statewide race in two decades, but the GOP is painting Minnesota’s ruling Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) as a party of fraud and lawlessness. The message has been resonating.
“Every Democrat in Minnesota has spent years enabling criminals who stole our tax dollars, with still no meaningful accountability and no end in sight to the billions in fraud that still plagues nearly every government program imaginable thanks to 16 years of Democrat control,” Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth, a one of a long list of Republican candidates for governor (including the “MyPillowGuy”), wrote on X.
If Democrats think they can sweep Minnesota’s fraud scandal away by swapping out Tim Walz, they are wrong.
Every Democrat in Minnesota has spent years enabling criminals who stole our tax dollars, with still no meaningful accountability and no end in sight to the billions in… https://t.co/Pk2K0PNKna— Lisa Demuth (@LisaDemuthMN) January 5, 2026
Minnesota Republican Party Chairman Alex Plechash told MinnPost earlier this month that having Walz on the top of the ballot helps Republicans, but he quickly added, “I hope that isn’t so much help that the Democratic Party reconsiders things.” The same day Walz dropped his re-election bid.
The two-term liberal, part of the Democrats’ presidential dream team badly beaten by Trump and Vice President JD Vance in 2024, said he will instead focus his time on the ongoing investigations into sweeping fraud in the state’s welfare programs that occurred on his watch. ‘On its Heels’
Minnesota’s Legislature is very much in play for Republicans. Democrats kept two seats they were expected to win in Tuesday’s special elections, bringing the Minnesota House back to a 67-67 tie. In the Senate, the DFL holds a razor-thin 34-33 majority.
As MinnPost’s Matthew Blake reported earlier this month, about 20 percent of Senate seats are considered at least somewhat competitive, based on past elections. In the House, about 10 percent of the contested races are competitive. DFLers, Blake said, are running against Trump. Republicans are campaigning on the controlling party’s fiscally disastrous record, particularly the billions of dollars stolen from taxpayers.
