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>> Eric: THANK YOU, FELLAS FOR JOINING US.

LIVELY DISCUSSION.

THANKS.

MINNESOTA MAKES HISTORY WITH ALL WOMEN AT THE TOP OF THE TICKET FOR THE FIRST TIME.

THE U.S.

SENATE AND THE GOVERNOR'S RACE NOW FEATURE FORMIDABLE FEMALE CANDIDATES.

OUR POLITICAL REPORTER MARY LAHAMMER TALKED WITH ONE WHO RARELY GIVES IN-PERSON INTERVIEWS AS SHE ROUNDS UP ALL THE FASCINATING IMPLICATIONS OF THE RECORD-SETTING PRIMARY ELECTION.

>> THIS DIDN'T HAPPEN BECAUSE OF ME.

THIS HAPPENED BECAUSE OF YOU.

[ Cheers ] THIS HAPPENED BECAUSE YOU SAID, MINNESOTA IS NOT FOR SALE.

>> Mary: DEMOCRATIC LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR PEGGY FLANAGAN HARNESSED THE PASSION OF PROGRESSIVES IN HER RUN FOR U.S.

SENATE AND WILL CONTINUE TO TRY TO LEVERAGE THE ISSUE OF IMMIGRATION AGAINST HER OPPONENT.

>> WE ARE NOT ABOUT TO IVE DONALD TRUMP ANOTHER LOYAL SOLDIER, LIKE MICHELE TAFOYA TO TAKE HIS ORDERS AND DO HIS BIDDING.

MICHELE TAFOYA WAS ALL IN WITH TRUMP WHEN I.C.E.

WAS TERRORIZING OUR NEIGHBORS.

>> THE BEGINNING OF OPERATION METRO SURGE WAS NOT OPTIMAL BY ANY STRETCH OF THE IMAGINATION.

WE HAD TWO VERY TRAGIC DEATHS.

I THINK TWO THINGS CAN BE TRUE.

I THINK WE CAN HAVE A SECURE BORDER AND WE CAN ALSO HAVE LEGAL, VETTED IMMIGRANTS WHO COME HERE, LIKE MY GRANDPARENTS DID.

I'M PROUD OF MY HERITAGE.

>> AND IT'S IN YOUR NAME, RIGHT.

>> SPANISH NAME, IT'S MY DAD'S.

>> I'M NOT A BIG IDENTITY POLITICS PERSON.

WHO I'M RUNNING UP, MICHELE TAFOYA, ALL MY LIFE EXPERIENCES, NOT JUST THE LATINA.

>> Mary: THE SIDELINE REPORTER, MICHELE TAFOYA WON BIG WITHOUT ELECTION NIGHT CELEBRATIONS.

>> SHE EVEN SAID, I.C.E.

TREATED CHILDREN REALLY REALLY WELL.

WELL, MICHELE, TELL THAT TO LIAM RAMOS.

TELL THAT TO THE PARENTS WHO WERE DISAPPEARED.

TELL THAT TO THE KIDS WHO DON'T KNOW WHERE THEIR MOM OR DAD ARE RIGHT NOW.

BECAUSE THE LAST THING THIS COUNTRY NEEDS IS TO GIVE DONALD TRUMP ANOTHER YES, SIR SENATOR.

>> I DISAGREE WITH MY PARTY ON A NUMBER OF ISSUES, AND I'M GOING TO CALL BALLS AND STRIKES, TO USE ANOTHER SPORTS ANALOGY.

>> Mary: WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?

>> THAT EANS WHEN THE PRESIDENT IS RIGHT, LIKE IN CLOSING AND SECURING OUR BORDER, I WILL SAY HE IS RIGHT.

AND WHEN I THINK HE IS WRONG, LIKE THE BEGINNING OF OPERATION METRO SURGE HERE, I'M GOING TO SAY IT WAS WRONG.

>> Mary: WHAT ABOUT THE WAR?

IS THAT AN ISSUE?

WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE THAT RESOLVED?

>> WHO WOULDN'T WANT TO SEE THAT RESOLVED?

>> Mary: AND THE AFFORDABILITY ISSUES THAT COME WITH IT, GAS PRICES, AFFORDABILITY IS REAL.

DID YOU HEAR THAT ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL AND HOW ARE YOU ADDRESSING IT?

>> ABSOLUTELY, ABSOLUTELY.

WELL, NUMBER ONE, LET'S STOP THE FRAUD.

LET'S STOP TAKING OUR TAXPAYERS' MONEY AND SENDING IT TO CRIMINALS.

>> Mary: THERE'S THIS CLIP OF YOU SAYING PEOPLE AREN'T PROUD TO BE FROM MINNESOTA WHEN THEY'RE OUT VACATIONING.

>> THEY'RE EMBARRASSED.

>> Mary: ARE YOU EMBARRASSED TO BE FROM MINNESOTA?

>> NO, I'M NOT.

I WOULDN'T BE RUNNING IF I WERE.

>> Mary: FOR THE FIRST TIME IN DECADES, REPUBLICANS ENDORSED CANDIDATES -- REPUBLICAN-REPUBLICAN DOORED CANDIDATES LOST TO SAVVY CANDIDATES, MIKE LINDELL, WHO REFUSED TO CONCEDE OVER VOTING CONSPIRACIES.

THE HISTORY-MAKING HOUSE SPEAKER, LISA DEMUTH PREVAILED IN THE RACE FOR GOVERNOR.

>> I'VE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY OF SERVING AS SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE IN THE LAST TWO YEARS AND I'VE BEEN IN THE LEGISLATURE FOR FOUR TERMS.

THAT EXPERIENCE AND WHAT I HAVE LEARNED IN THAT PROCESS HAS TAUGHT ME MUCH ABOUT HOW OUR GOVERNMENT OPERATES, WHERE WE NEED TO MAKE CHANGES, SPECIFICALLY FRAUD, PUTTING EXTRA INTERNAL CONTROLS AND PROTECTING AND RESPECTING MINNESOTA TAXPAYER DOLLARS, BUT I'VE ALSO LEARNED TO WORK ACROSS THE AISLE IN AN EXACTLY TIED HOUSE.

>> Mary: SHE'LL FACE DEMOCRAT SQUINT PERFORMER U.S.

SENATOR AMY KLOBUCHAR.

>> IN MINNESOTA, TRUST IS NOT GIVEN.

IT'S EARNED.

THAT TRUST COMES WITH AN EXPECTATION, WHICH IS RESULTS.

RESULTS THAT YOU CAN SEE AND FEEL IN YOUR LIFE.

RESULTS IN MAKING LIFE MORE AFFORDABLE, MAKING OUR GOVERNMENT WORK AND GETTING RID OF THE FRAUD.

>> Mary: BEFORE THE POLLS HAD EVEN CLOSED, THE STATE HAD ALREADY SET A NEW RECORD FOR EARLY VOTING IN A MIDTERM PRIMARY ELECTION, AND THEN WE FOUND OUT THE STATE HAD SET A NEW MARK WITH A MILLION VOTES CAST IN A PRIMARY ELECTION, PITTING ABOUT 25 -- HITTING ABOUT 25% OF VOTER TURNOUT, ALSO A NEW RECORD.

>> MINNESOTA HAS SHATTERED THE MODERN-DAY RECORD FOR A NONPRESIDENTIAL ELECTION YEAR.

>> Mary: SIMON SAYS THE OPEN PRIMARY SYSTEM, WITH SO MANY COMPETITIVE CONTESTS, ALSO DROVE TURNOUT UP TO NEW HEIGHTS.

>> WE'RE ALMOST ALWAYS NUMBER ONE NUMBER THE COUNTRY IN VOTER TURNOUT.

WE TAKE OUR VOTING VERY SERIOUSLY IN MINNESOTA FOR GENERAL ELECTIONS.

FOR MANY PEOPLE, IT'S A DUTY, IT'S AN OBLIGATION.

IT'S FUN, COMPETITIVENESS WITH WISCONSIN AND OTHER STATES.

>> Mary: HE'LL FACE FORMER CONGRESSMAN, REPUBLICAN TAD JUDE IN THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S RACE.

>> I'M RUNNING TO SECURE THE VOTE SO WE CAN TRUST THE VOTE.

[ Cheers ] I'M RUNNING TO GET OUR MONEY BACK.

GET OUR FLAG BACK.

AND GET OUR ELECTIONS BACK.

>> Mary: THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S RACE COULD BE ONE TO WATCH AND THE OPEN STATE AUDITOR'S SEAT.

>> DO YOU WANT TO CROSS ME OVER?

>> Mary: LANT RIGHT, GO LEFT.

FINALLY, FORMER STATE SENATOR MATT LITTLE, KNOWN FOR HIS CROSSOVER VOTES IN THE LEGISLATURE AS A YOUNG DEMOCRAT RAN A PROGRESSIVE CAMPAIGN FOR CONGRESS IN A COMPETITIVE DISTRICT WHERE HE'S MATCHED UP AGAINST CURRENT STATE SENATOR REPUBLICAN ERIC PRATT.

>> Mary: HIS WHEN IS THIS