Democrats in Minnesota Face Tougher Than Expected Election Prospects Amid Concerns Over Fraud, Violence in Somali Community

A leading Republican activist and former candidate for lieutenant governor of Minnesota, Annette Meeks, wrote me about recent changes in the state and how they may impact the United States Senate and governor’s races.It’s a good case study for the rest of the country.A Republican sportscaster and first-time candidate, Michele Tafoya, is on the verge of beating the Democratic candidate, Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan. Mrs. Flanagan was the more radical big-government socialist in the Democratic primary and beat Congresswoman Angie Craig, who was generally considered more moderate and electable. Mrs. Flanagan is weakened by her ties to Governor Tim Waltz, whose disapproval was so high he did not even try to run for re-election.Furthermore, the enormous scale of alleged fraud and misuse of public funds in Minnesota, especially in the Somali community, has become toxic for Democrats at every level in that state. Senator Amy Klobuchar, who entered the race for governor as an overwhelming favorite, recently had a poll showing her only two points ahead with enough undecided voters to defeat her. A video from 2017 has surfaced from a Somali community event where she briefly waved an upside-down American flag that she was handed. While the election is tightening over concerns about the fraud in the state, the final decisive break may come from the growing level of violence from Somali gangs and other migrants. On Wednesday, the Department of Justice charged an 18-year-old, Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud, for illegally buying an automatic weapon with the intent of killing 30 to 60 people at the Mall of America. Mr. Mohamud, the son of Somali immigrants, reportedly wanted to use the planned attack at the mall as credentials for joining ISIS and had expressed interest in moving back to Somalia to join a terrorist cell.Mrs. Meeks reports that “there is a general feeling of being unsafe,” and she blames the “soft on crime” mentality of a Hennepin County prosecutor — along with a new pardon policy passed when the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party controlled all branches of state government. Under the new policy, the governor, the state supreme court’s chief justice, and the attorney general can vote to pardon people with a simple majority. It used to require a unanimous vote.These issues and a recent suspected Somali gang-related shooting at the Eden Prairie High School homecoming football game will have a major impact on the election, Mrs. Meeks tells me.In the past two weeks, the premier Catholic church and school at Edina, Minnesota, Our Lady of Grace, (which was the home parish of Republican whip, Congressman Tom Emmer, during his childhood) had a shoot-out on its basketball court that has been open to the public after school hours for decades. Several windows of the church were hit, too. Since last Friday’s Somali gang shooting at Eden Prairie, two additional police reports have been filed in suburban communities involving Somali gang members, with one reporting over 100 rounds of gunfire in a local neighborhood. The Republican sheriff of Ramsey County, which includes St. Paul, has been warning residents about the 12 Somali gangs active in Minnesota for at least four years. The problem has become so pervasive that he sent letters to 233 suspected gang members against 10 of the major gang leaders prior to the opening of the Minnesota State Fair — an event that is second only to Texas in annual attendance. Rather than getting the court order, seven of the 10 gang members signed an agreement to stay away from the state fair this year, and it’s the first year in three years that there hasn’t been a shooting inside the fairgrounds between gang members.Fraud concerns and the radicalism of big government socialism have already made the Minnesota Senate race far closer than anyone expected. Mrs. Tafoya turned out to be an effective candidate, and her big government socialist opponent was already weighed down by Mr. Waltz’s record.Yet the emerging violence and the degree to which it can be attributed to the Democratic Party’s anti-police, pro-criminal biases could prove the final straw that ends over a generation of Democratic dominance in Minnesota — and leads to Republican statewide victories which make it much harder for the Democrats to win control of the Senate.Further, Republicans around the county should point to Minnesota as an example of where big-government socialism and lax law enforcement will lead us.

Democrats in Minnesota Face Tougher Than Expected Election Prospects Amid Concerns Over Fraud, Violence in Somali Community

Democrats in Minnesota Face Tougher Than Expected Election Prospects Amid Concerns Over Fraud, Violence in Somali Community

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