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← Rundown2026 Minnesota Senate race

2026 election · U.S. Senate

2026 Minnesota Senate race

Incumbent: Tina Smith (Democrat)

Tina SmithTina SmithDemocrat
Adam SchwarzeAdam SchwarzeREPUBLICAN PARTY
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Public polling

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FlanaganCraigTafoya
40%45%50%Jul 11Dec 18May 28Flanagan 48.7%Craig 49.0%Tafoya 43.0%
Trend: trailing 5-poll average · hover a dot for the poll behind it

Declared candidates

Source: FEC filings + public polling
  • Tina Smith
    Tina Smith

    Democrat · Incumbent

    Stated positions (12) ▾
    • Abortion: Supports codifying Roe v. Wade protections into law, interstate travel for abortion care, and access to medication abortion. [1]
    • Campaign finance reform: Supports reversing Citizens United, increasing campaign transparency, and restricting foreign-influenced corporate contributions. [1]
    • Drug Policy: Supports requiring pharmaceutical companies to contribute to opioid abuse prevention efforts. [1]
    • Education:

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PollsterDatesCandidate%
Impact Research (D)2026-05-28Peggy Flanagan (DFL)51
Impact Research (D)2026-05-28Angie Craig (DFL)51
Impact Research (D)2026-05-28Michele Tafoya (R)44
Emerson College2026-02-08Peggy Flanagan (DFL)47
Emerson College2026-02-08Michele Tafoya (R)40
Emerson College2026-02-08Angie Craig (DFL)47
Impact Research (D)2025-07-11Peggy Flanagan (DFL)48
Impact Research (D)2025-07-11Angie Craig (DFL)49
Impact Research (D)2025-07-11Michele Tafoya (R)45
Supports funding for free all-day kindergarten.
[1]
  • Energy: Supports energy conservation measures as both environmentally and economically beneficial. [1]
  • Equal pay: Supports the Paycheck Fairness Act to close the gender pay gap. [1]
  • Health care: Supports affordable high-quality health coverage, lower prescription drug costs, mental health parity, and protecting Medicaid, Medicare, and preexisting conditions coverage. [1]
  • Housing costs: Supports increasing affordable housing supply, addressing homelessness, and investing in rural, senior, and Native American housing. [1]
  • Immigration - Somali Community: Condemns targeting of the Somali community in the Twin Cities by ICE and defends immigrants who came to the country legally. [1]
  • Immigration and ICE Enforcement: Opposes aggressive ICE and Border Patrol operations in Minnesota, calling for their withdrawal, and says she will not vote to fund ICE/DHS following fatal shootings of civilians. [1][2][3]
  • LGBTQ equality: Supports the Equality Act to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. [1]
  • Workers' Rights: Positions herself as an advocate for workers, criticizing the policies of the Trump administration and Elon Musk. [1]
  • Adam Schwarze
    Adam Schwarze

    REPUBLICAN PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (21) ▾
    • Birth Control: Finds the number of women on birth control concerning due to hormonal effects. [1]
    • Border enforcement & immigration law: Supports policies that increase safety, protect citizens from drugs and crime, and enhance national security. [1]
    • China & trade: Supports President Trump’s use of tariffs. [1]
    • Economy: Supports unleashing the economy by focusing on small business and fighting for farmers. [1]
    • Education: Supports putting parents in control of children’s education and holding schools accountable to families. [1][2]
    • Election Security: Calls for election security measures. [1]
    • Energy: Supports nuclear power development. [1]
    • Energy production: Supports nuclear power as a priority. [1]
    • Federal spending & debt: Supports reducing government spending, rooting out waste, and making Washington live within its means. [1][2]
    • Foreign Policy: Supports restoring American strength to secure peace and global stability. [1]
    • Health care: Supports price transparency in healthcare and addressing issues with Obamacare. [1]
    • Immigration: Opposes open borders and supports immigration enforcement. [1]
    • Israel: Supports a strong US-Israel relationship and strategic alliance. [1]
    • Military: Supports focusing the military on effectiveness, not political agendas. [1]
    • Parents' rights in education: Supports putting parents in control of their children’s education and holding schools accountable to families. [1][2]
    • Small Business: Favors fewer regulations and taxes on small businesses. [1]
    • Social Security & Medicare: Supports using non-partisan AI to address Social Security solvency without affecting those over 30. [1]
    • Tariffs: Supports President Trump’s use of tariffs. [1]
    • Taxes: Supports lowering taxes and providing small business tax credits while simplifying regulations. [1][2][3]
    • Women's Sports: Supports keeping men out of women’s sports and protecting girls’ sports and locker rooms. [1][2]
    • Women's sports: Supports keeping men out of women’s sports and protecting girls’ sports and locker rooms. [1][2]
  • Angie Craig
    Angie Craig

    DEMOCRATIC PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (19) ▾
    • Abortion: Supports reproductive freedoms and opposes federal interference in decisions between a woman and her doctor. [1][2]
    • Border enforcement & immigration law: Supports building an immigration system with a secure border and paths to citizenship for Dreamers and qualifying undocumented immigrants. [1]
    • Budget & COVID Relief: Supported federal economic stimulus measures, including the $900 billion COVID relief package and the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan. [1]
    • Civil Rights: Supports protecting sexual orientation as a civil right and sponsored legislation to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. [1]
    • Congressional stock trading: Supports banning members of Congress from owning or trading individual stocks. [1]
    • Congressional term limits: Supports imposing term limits on members of Congress. [1]
    • Corporate Regulation: Views lower corporate taxes as not promoting economic growth and voted for increased corporate transparency requirements. [1]
    • Crime & policing: Supports providing resources, equipment, and training to local law enforcement to reduce crime. [1]
    • Education: Supports career and technical training, fully funding special education, and lowering education costs. [1]
    • Energy production: Supports maintaining a strong Renewable Fuel Standard and leading in homegrown renewable energy. [1]
    • Fentanyl & drug enforcement: Supports combating the fentanyl epidemic and opioid crisis by stopping illicit flows and holding platforms accountable. [1][2]
    • Gun Policy: Supports common-sense gun reforms such as universal background checks and has voted to ban military-style assault weapons and to keep guns from domestic abusers. [1]
    • Gun policy: Supports universal background checks for every gun purchase and directing CDC research on gun violence. [1]
    • Health care: Supports a public option for health insurance and legislation to lower prescription drug costs for seniors. [1][2]
    • Housing costs: Supports policies to address housing affordability and strengthen local economies. [1]
    • Immigration: Voted for the Laken Riley Act mandating detention of certain undocumented immigrants but later said she regrets that vote following aggressive federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota. [1]
    • Small Business & Economy: Expresses concern that immigration enforcement actions, tariff uncertainty, and cuts to federal safety-net programs like SNAP are straining small businesses and workers. [1][2]
    • Social Security & Medicare: Opposes privatization, jeopardy, or cuts to Social Security and Medicare; supports strengthening benefits. [1]
    • Taxes: Supports cutting taxes on small businesses and the middle class. [1]
  • David W Hann
    David W Hann

    REPUBLICAN PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (13) ▾
    • Border enforcement & immigration law: Supports enforcing immigration laws and border security. [1]
    • Crime & policing: Supports public safety and law enforcement against rising crime. [1]
    • Education: Supports reforming education delivery systems and changing school rules. [1]
    • Energy: Supports maintaining CO2 emissions restrictions and opposes new coal-fired power plants. [1]
    • Energy production: Supports keeping CO2 emissions ban and opposes new coal plants. [1]
    • Federal spending & debt: Opposes fraud, waste and abuse in government spending. [1][2]
    • Health care: Supports reforming healthcare delivery systems. [1]
    • Immigration: Supports enforcing immigration laws to encourage constructive immigration, not criminal activity. [1]
    • Refugees: Urges halting Syrian refugee inflows until security screenings are rigorous and exhaustive. [1]
    • Taxation: Supports providing tax relief to Minnesota families and opposes tax increases. [1][2]
    • Taxes: Supports tax relief for Minnesota families and opposes tax increases. [1][2][3]
    • Voting: Supports requiring photographic identification for voting. [1]
    • Women's sports: Opposes transgender policy allowing males in female high school athletics. [1]
  • MF
    Margaret Flanagan

    DEMOCRATIC-FARMER-LABOR

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (8) ▾
    • Abortion: Supports the Women’s Health Protection Act to restore Roe v. Wade protections and expand abortion access nationwide. [1]
    • Border enforcement & immigration law: Opposes the Laken Riley Act and mass deportation policies, advocating accountability for ICE operations and due process protections. [1][2]
    • Campaign finance reform: Refuses corporate PAC money and supports reversing Citizens United to reduce special interests influence in Washington. [1]
    • Health care: Believes healthcare is a human right and will fight for Medicare for All while expanding access and reining in insurance greed. [1]
    • Housing costs: Champions investments in housing including rental assistance, transitional housing, and support for first-time homebuyers. [1]
    • Israel: Supports ending U.S. military aid to Israel and describes its actions against Palestinians as genocide. [1]
    • Medical gender transition for minors: Advocates protecting access to gender-affirming care for minors. [1]
    • Taxes: Supports repealing tax breaks for the wealthy and having higher earners contribute more to Social Security. [1]
  • MY
    Mark York

    REPUBLICAN PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (8) ▾
    • Abortion: Supports standing up for life. [1][2]
    • Crime & policing: Supports police, firefighters, and first responders to address crime. [1][2]
    • Energy production: Supports bringing critical mineral production to Minnesota and accelerating related permits. [1][2][3]
    • Federal spending & debt: Supports cutting government waste, combating fraud, and balancing the federal budget. [1][2][3]
    • Housing costs: Supports cutting regulations to make housing more affordable. [1][2][3]
    • Parents' rights in education: Supports rural communities' freedom to run their schools without bureaucratic interference. [1][2]
    • Regulation & permitting: Supports accelerating permitting and cutting red tape for critical mineral production and small businesses. [1][2][3]
    • Taxes: Opposes burdensome taxes that hurt small businesses. [1][2]
  • Melisa Lopez Franzen
    Melisa Lopez Franzen

    DEMOCRATIC PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (8) ▾
    • Abortion: Supports reproductive justice and expanding access to women's health care needs across the state. [1][2]
    • Education: Supports a fully funded public education system with resources to empower the next generation. [1][2]
    • Environment / Energy: Supports progressive legislation to reduce emissions and grow clean energy solutions. [1]
    • Health care: Supports legislation addressing hospital nurse staffing shortages through committees, retention, and mental health programs. [1]
    • Marijuana legalization: Supports cannabis legislation as chief author. [1]
    • Student loan forgiveness: Supports a student loan forgiveness program for nurses as part of retention efforts. [1]
    • Taxes: Supports paying for tax cuts via surcharge on investment income over $250,000 to maintain fiscal stability. [1]
    • Ukraine aid: Supports Governor's order to punish Russian aggression by terminating state contracts with Russian entities. [1]
  • MT
    Michele Tafoya

    REPUBLICAN PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (7) ▾
    • Abortion: Supports reasonable access in first 12 weeks of pregnancy; opposes taxpayer-funded abortion and extreme state laws; aligns with states' rights post-Dobbs. [1][2][3]
    • Border enforcement & immigration law: Supports border security, deportation of criminal illegal aliens and fraud-convicted immigrants. [1][2][3]
    • Crime & policing: Supports law enforcement funding and training; tougher penalties for violent crime; opposes defund the police. [1]
    • Federal spending & debt: Opposes runaway spending and supports reducing national debt through fiscal restraint. [1]
    • Health care: Opposes government or corporate bureaucrats controlling decisions; supports cutting prescription drug costs and patient control. [1]
    • Taxes: Supports Congress spending less, borrowing less and taxing less to reduce inflation. [1]
    • Women's sports: Opposes trans women and girls playing female sports. [1][2]
  • RW
    Royce White

    REPUBLICAN PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (13) ▾
    • Abortion: Supports pro-life stance with life beginning at conception and returning decisions to states. [1][2]
    • Border enforcement & immigration law: Supports securing the border as a top priority linked to debt and foreign wars. [1]
    • Congressional term limits: Supports term limits of a maximum of 12 years in House or Senate. [1][2]
    • Crime & policing: Supports funding and training so police become the pride of the community. [1]
    • Election integrity: voter ID: Supports single-day paper ballots with personal identification requirement. [1][2]
    • Energy production: Supports energy independence and security to avoid foreign conflicts. [1]
    • Federal spending & debt: Supports addressing the national debt as a top priority. [1]
    • Gun policy: Supports Second Amendment rights that can never be infringed. [1][2]
    • Medical gender transition for minors: Opposes taxpayer funding of gender-affirming care. [1]
    • Parents' rights in education: Supports parents' fundamental right to direct children's upbringing, education and identity. [1]
    • School choice: Supports school choice legislation such as tuition tax credits. [1]
    • Ukraine aid: Opposes forever wars and defending other nations' borders over America's. [1]
    • Women's sports: Supports legislation preserving girls' and women's athletics for females. [1]
  • TW
    Tom Weiler

    REPUBLICAN PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (6) ▾
    • Abortion: Supports legal protection of human life from conception until natural death, with exception only to save the mother's life. [1][2]
    • Federal spending & debt: Supports requiring Congress to pass budgets on time and reduce the national debt instead of repeated taxing and spending. [1][2]
    • Gun policy: Strong supporter of the Second Amendment and responsible gun ownership. [1]
    • National Security: Supports peace through strength by properly resourcing, equipping, and training the military to deter adversaries like Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran. [1][2]
    • Parents' rights in education: Supports parental transparency and accountability in education for opportunity and excellence. [1][2]
    • School choice: Supports school choice to empower families to choose the best education for their children. [1][2]
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