President Donald Trump’s decisive 2024 victory reignited the internal war for ideological supremacy between the Democratic Party’s moderate and progressive wings. Today, perhaps no electoral battle tests which wing will come out on top more than that to become Minnesota’s next U.S. Senator.

The race to replace Senator Tina Smith features a high-profile clash for the state’s Democratic–Farmer–Labor (DFL) Party nomination between Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan and U.S. Representative Angie Craig. Flanagan has staked out the progressive lane while Craig has claimed the moderate one.

However, beyond the race serving as an ideological proxy fight between Bernie Sanders-style progressivism and Bill Clinton-esque “Third Way” centrism, exists a dispute over how the party should approach camp

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