Minnesota Republicans are outspending Democrats for the first time in recent memory as they try to wrest control of state offices from the DFL and defy national headwinds in next week’s midterm elections.

The city says 43,303 people had voted by mail or in person as of Tuesday morning, with more voting in person than before. Evenings are the busiest, a Minneapolis early voting site told WCCO’s Frankie McLister.

State campaign finance regulators have dismissed a complaint filed by Minnesota Democrats over mailers that attacked Sen. Amy Klobuchar from the left. The advertisements sent by Citizens for Public Safety Transparency, a mysterious group incorporated in Delaware, arrived in Minnesota mailboxes in the closing weeks of Klobuchar’s bid for governor against Republican candidate Lisa Demuth. ...

Even as Republicans face tough national headwinds, they stand a chance at flipping Minnesota's Senate seat, experts told Newsweek.

In a video her campaign posted Monday, the former president says Flanagan was an organizer on his first presidential campaign and urges Minnesotans to make a plan to vote.

Minnesota voters are casting ballots for governor, Senate and the state’s eight US House seats. In the Senate race, Democrat Peggy Flanagan faces Republican Michele Tafoya in a contest to succeed Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar,

As Amy Klobuchar runs for governor, voters must decide if her intense management style is a strength or a liability.

Come Election Day, voters may see an unusual presence outside their polling place: clergy and other faith leaders. Wearing fluorescent vests labeled “poll chaplain,” hundreds of trained volunteers plan to fan out across Minnesota on Nov. 3, offering a calm, nonpartisan presence as concerns grow about voter intimidation, misinformation and distrust in elections. The local initiative, called ...