Republican Candidate Says She Never Called Minnesota 'Embarrassing.' A Deleted Post Tells A Different Story
CNN’s KFile found Tafoya had said at least four times in three years that she planned to leave Minnesota.
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Republican busted for flagrantly lying about being 'embarrassed' of her home state
Michele Tafoya, the Republican Senate nominee in Minnesota, recently denied ever saying she was embarrassed to be from the state she wants to represent, but a digital deep-dive review by CNN's KFile found she had done just that.In a local radio interview earlier this month, the former NFL sideline reporter was asked whether Minnesota embarrassed her, and she insisted that wasn't true. "If I were embarrassed to be from Minnesota, would I be runni…
Fact-check busts GOP nominee’s claim she’s not 'embarrassed' by her state
Republican strategists are hoping that if Democrats are able to flip any GOP-held U.S. Senate seats in the 2026 midterms, they will be able to offset the losses by doing some flipping of their own. One of the states they're looking at is Minnesota, where Republican Michele Tafoya is up against the Democratic nominee, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan. But Tafoya now finds herself in a controversy over past criticism of Minnesota she is now trying to dista…
Tafoya Called Minnesota Embarrassing in Deleted Tweet
"In a local radio interview earlier this month, Michele Tafoya, the Republican Senate nominee in Minnesota and former sports broadcaster, was asked about her past criticism of the state and whether she was embarrassed by Minnesota," CNN reports.Said Tafoya: "If I were embarrassed to be from Minnesot
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