Sen. Michele Tafoya has a nice ring to it

According to this Outkick article, former NFL sideline reporter Michele Tafoya is considering running for Minnesota's soon-to-be open U.S. Senate seat. According to the article, "Michele Tafoya, the former NFL sideline reporter turned political analyst, is considering a run for the United States Senate in her current home state of Minnesota, OutKick has learned. Sources familiar with the situation say she is expected to make a final decision in early 2026." If she runs, she'd be matched against either Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan or Rep. Angie Craig. Both DFL candidates have significant liabilities that might prevent them from winning a statewide election.

Lt. Gov. Flanagan is a lunatic. There's nothing moderate about her. Rep. Craig isn't a mooderate, either. She's just better at portraying herself as a moderate. Both support subsidizing gigantic health insurance companies that drive inflation and hurt consumers. Neither supports health insurance policies that can be transferred across state lines. If they allowed those types of policies, each state couldn't insist on their own set of mandates. Each individual mandate is a way for the state to induce higher heealth insurance premiums. It's a nice little racket if you can hide it.

Tafoya gave up her NBC career so she could speak more openly about her conservative political beliefs. The breaking point for Tafoya at the media giant came in December 2021 when she appeared on "The View" and served as the conservative panelist. The rest of the cast on the show supported Colin Kaepernick's national anthem protest, and his assertion that the NFL resembled the slave trade, while Tafoya raised some important counterpoints.

"I’ve been covering the NFL for 25 years," Tafoya said at the time. "Nobody forces these guys to play. I thought comparing it to the slave trade was a little rough. These guys enter willingly, they are the most well cared for people. Yes, they play a hard sport. And every one of them — black, white, Latino, whoever’s playing the sport — will tell you how much they love it, and they’re willing to do it, and they make a damn good living."

I wouldn't call Ms. Tafoya a movement conservative like President Reagan or Sen. Cruz. I'd characterize Ms. Tafoya as a common sense conservative; someone with traditional conservative views. I'm just guessing but I'm betting she'd support the police, the military and ICE while appreciating the difficult, important job they fulfill. I'm betting that she'd get along quite well with Sen. John Fetterman, the only legitimate moderate Democrat in the Senate.
Is she running for Senate?

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