Former Sports Reporter Tafoya Wins GOP Senate Nod in Minnesota

From the sidelines of professional football to the floor of a political primary, Michele Tafoya has completed an unlikely passage — winning Minnesota's Republican Senate nomination and positioning herself to challenge a quarter-century of Democratic dominance in statewide races. Her victory over a crowded field, including a party-endorsed former Navy SEAL, reflects a hunger within the GOP for a new kind of messenger. The November contest against Democratic Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan will ask Minnesota voters whether frustration with the status quo can overcome the gravitational pull of politi