Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Minnesota.
Case
Michele Tafoya says Minnesota Senate opponent Peggy Flanagan “is hiding from the fraud” in the state’s Feeding Our Future scandal and “let it happen.” Flanagan says fraud is unacceptable and that Minnesota prosecutes fraudsters while Trump pardons them.
Role at the time: Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Minnesota, posting on her own X account
Statement summary
In a post on her campaign X account, Michele Tafoya said her opponent, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, “is hiding from the fraud” in Minnesota’s Feeding Our Future scandal and “let it happen.” She said Minnesotans “have noticed,” pointing to polling showing the Senate race as “a statistical tie,” and said “people are done making excuses for their leaders.”
“Peggy Flanagan is hiding from the fraud. She let it happen. Minnesotans have noticed. That’s why this race is a statistical tie. I’ve been in every corner of this state, and I keep hearing the same thing: people are done making excuses for their leaders.”
Tafoya makes the accusation herself and presents it as settled fact (“she let it happen”), and argues that Minnesota voters are responding to it. That defends and presses the accusation rather than merely reporting it. The closest competing label is mixed_or_conditional; it loses because Tafoya states the accusation without qualification or condition.
Statement dates: September 13, 2026
Statement dates: September 13, 2026
Statement dates: September 13, 2026
