Michele Tafoya in 2026 MN Senatorial race
On Free Trade:
Don't get into hypotheticals on legality of tariffs
Asked whether she thought Trump had the right to enact tariffs unilaterally or if Congress should have a say in the trade issues,
Tafoya demurred. "I'd need the totality of the circumstances," she said. "I'd want to look at all the information, and so I don't want to get into hypotheticals with you on tariffs right now."
Source: NOTUS.org on 2026 Minnesota Senate race
Jan 21, 2026
On Abortion:
I'm not going to BS you; I'm a pro-choice Republican
Michele Tafoya doesn't believe that her support for abortion rights will hurt her campaign for Senate as a Republican in Minnesota. "Family is incredibly important to me,"
she said. "But I'm not going to BS you. I'm a pro-choice Republican. There are some of us out there."
Source: NOTUS.org on 2026 Minnesota Senate race
Jan 21, 2026
On Civil Rights:
Keep men out of women's sports and locker rooms
Get men out of women's sports. The radical social experiments on our daughters have to stop. As our Senator, Michele will protect
Minnesota kids from insane ideologies and keep men out of women's sports and locker rooms.
Source: 2026 Minnesota Senate campaign website MicheleTafoya.com
Apr 28, 2026
On Crime:
Will fight for tougher penalties, safer neighborhoods
Our criminal justice system is a turnstile. A majority of violent crimes go unsolved. Restore Minnesota's commonsense, tough-on-crime voice in Congress. For most Minnesotans, public safety isn't partisan. As our Senator, Michele will fight for what
Minnesotans want: tougher penalties, safer neighborhoods and the rights of victims and innocent families to live in peace.Enforce our laws, deport criminal illegal aliens and let federal, state and local law enforcement work together.
Source: 2026 Minnesota Senate campaign website MicheleTafoya.com
Apr 28, 2026
On Education:
Restore parents' say in schools, increase transparency
Stronger schools and parents' rights. Minnesota's schools used to be a crown jewel. Now they've become a jobs program for grownups while students' test scores have fallen. As our Senator, Michele will fight for education
reform that restores parents' say, increases transparency and accountability and reverses the decline in test scores.
Source: 2026 Minnesota Senate campaign website MicheleTafoya.com
Apr 28, 2026
On Energy & Oil:
Supports all-of-the-above affordable energy
All-of-the-above affordable energy. The far left talks about "affordability," but they've spent decades at war against the sources of power that actually work. Our family budgets and national security depend on affordable, clean-burning
American energy that doesn't stop when the sun sets or the wind stops blowing. As our Senator, Michele will support all U.S. energy sources so Minnesotans can see lower utility bills and gas prices while continuing to protect our environment.
Source: 2026 Minnesota Senate campaign website MicheleTafoya.com
Apr 28, 2026
On Government Reform:
Protect democracy with voter ID and paper ballots
Strengthen elections. It should be easy to vote and hard to cheat. We have to show photo ID to drive a car, board an airplane or open a bank account.
There is no excuse for not protecting our democracy with voter ID and paper ballots. As our Senator, Michele will fight for the SAVE Act and other commonsense steps to protect the ballot.
Source: 2026 Minnesota Senate campaign website MicheleTafoya.com
Apr 28, 2026
On Health Care:
Don't hand healthcare to faceless government bureaucrats
For decades, we had one party establishment trying to hand our healthcare decisions to faceless government bureaucrats that would leave us waiting longer for worse care, and another party establishment that let faceless corporate bureaucrats deny claims
and overcharge patients for insurance premiums, procedures and prescription drugs. As our Senator, Michele will fight ALL the bureaucrats, middlemen and price-gougers, cut prescription drug costs and keep power in the hands of patients.
Source: 2026 Minnesota Senate campaign website MicheleTafoya.com
Apr 28, 2026
On Immigration:
Any immigrant convicted of fraud must be deported
Any immigrant who is a guest in our country and gets convicted of fraud must be deported. As our Senator, Michele will cosponsor and lead the Deporting Fraudsters Act with Senators Ted Cruz, Mike Lee and John Cornyn. Stop treating fraud as a
second-class crime. As our Senator, Michele will fight for tough new mandatory minimum sentences that put fraudsters in federal prison and keep them there.
Source: 2026 Minnesota Senate campaign website MicheleTafoya.com
Apr 28, 2026
On Immigration:
Fight tooth and nail against campaign to abolish ICE
Democratic mayors, Governors and Attorneys General do not have veto power over federal law. The American people overwhelmingly agree with President Trump that our border should be secure, our laws should be enforced and criminal illegal immigrants
should be deported. As our Senator, Michele will fight tooth and nail against the far left's campaign to abolish ICE and reopen America's borders.
Source: 2026 Minnesota Senate campaign website MicheleTafoya.com
Apr 28, 2026
On Jobs:
Women can play a broad range of roles in the NFL universe
My hope is that women--and men--will look at Football is Female and see the broad range of roles women are playing in the NFL universe. There are so many opportunities, and they are varied. Reporting is just one. Women are now coaching and officiating!
Women are in the front offices and the athletic training rooms. Just like any industry that has been male-dominated in the past, the NFL is a place where anyone can thrive.
Source: Refinery29.com on 2026 Minnesota Senate race
Oct 4, 2018
On Principles & Values:
Four-time Emmy Award-winning sports reporter
Michele Tafoya is a four-time Emmy Award-winning broadcaster, record-setting NFL sideline reporter, and now a political and cultural commentator focused on accountability, integrity, and family-first leadership. Over the course of her career,
Tafoya became the most-honored national television sideline reporter in U.S. sports history. She earned four Sports Emmy Awards for Outstanding Sports Personality--Sports Reporter.
Source: 2026 Minnesota Senate campaign website MicheleTafoya.com
Apr 28, 2026
On Principles & Values:
I knew God was leading me in a certain direction
This is Michele Tafoya--I've got a quick story to share if you'll indulge me for a few moments.So I hung up my press badge and quit my dream job so I could speak my mind. People said I was OUT OF MY MIND.
But I knew God was leading me in a certain direction, and that's no time for half-measures. I knew he had a plan for my life. So I took a leap of faith and never looked back.
Source: Law Enforcement Today on 2026 Minnesota Senate race
Jan 23, 2026
On Tax Reform:
Make Congress spend less; borrow less; tax less
The career politicians and D.C. bureaucrats have one mission: Take away more of our money and freedom and seize more power for themselves. But no nation can tax, borrow and print its way to prosperity. The far left's tax hikes and runaway spending got
us painful inflation that is still squeezing Minnesotans to this day. We need outsiders who will make Congress spend less, borrow less and tax less--and invest in American workers instead of selling them out.
Source: 2026 Minnesota Senate campaign website MicheleTafoya.com
Apr 28, 2026
On War & Peace:
Be patriots about Iran war: maybe one less trip to Starbucks
Tafoya, "During past wars Americans got behind our servicemen and women, and we did little things to show our support for them. We collected metal, we recycled stuff, aluminum, so that we could help in the war effort." Tafoya continued, "I think
right now, at least just kind of keeping a stiff upper lip, maybe take one less trip to Starbucks, and so that gas goes a little further, until this thing is over and these gas prices come back down again, let's just try to be patriots about this."
Source: Newsweek magazine on 2026 Minnesota Senate race
Mar 19, 2026
Page last updated: Oct 18, 2026