The Partisan Chaos Unfolding in Minnesota

Democrats are scuffling to control the two houses of the state legislature — with a majority in neither.

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The Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul, Minn.

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With Donald Trump hitting Washington like a typhoon, it’s tempting to think that the 2024 election is over. Americans went to the polls nearly three months ago, and unusually for our era, the presidential election was settled on Election Night and conceded the following day. But in two states, Minnesota and North Carolina, the election is still unresolved. In both states, bids for unified partisan control have been regularly frustrated in recent years, in spite of the Republican tilt of North Carolina and the Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) tilt of Minnesota. Today, let’s look at Minnesota, where a giant mess has landed in the lap of Governor Tim Walz after he returned from his brief and unsuccessful tour of the national stage.

The State Senate

Dan McLaughlin

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Dan McLaughlin

Dan McLaughlin is a senior writer at National Review Online and a fellow at National Review Institute.

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