By
Ed Kilgore,
political columnist for Intelligencer since 2015
Minnesota Senate rivals Angie Craig and Peggy Flanagan.
A week after Abdul El-Sayed’s narrow victory in Michigan’s U.S. Senate primary, the competition between progressives and centrist Democrats is moving to a different corner of the midwest. On August 11, there are competitive contests for another open Senate seat in Minnesota and an open gubernatorial office in Wisconsin. Minnesota is a traditionally (but not overwhelmingly) Democratic state; it last voted for a GOP presidential candidate in 1972, though it had a Republican governor as recently as 2010 and a Republican senator until 2008. Wisconsin, on the other hand, is one of the most evenly balanced states in the country, up and down the ballot.
