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United States Senator from Minnesota
Ilhan Omar has publicly declared she will run for re-election to represent Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District in 2026, explicitly ruling out a bid for the open U.S. Senate seat; multiple local and...
Ilhan Omar publicly announced she will seek reelection to Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District in 2026, explicitly ruling out a bid for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn....
As of the latest compiled reporting, at least seven U.S. senators have publicly announced they will not seek re-election in 2026: Democrats Tina Smith (MN), Gary Peters (MI), Jeanne Shaheen (NH) and D...
Eight incumbent U.S. senators announced they will not seek re-election in 2026, splitting evenly between the parties with ; these departures create multiple open seats that will shape the 2026 competi...
A clear, consistent fact emerges across the materials: the U.S. Senate seats — the senators whose six-year terms began with the 117th Congress on January 3, 2021 — expire on , and those seats are the ...
Available reporting identifies the MEALS Act and related child‑nutrition bills as having bipartisan sponsors and co‑sponsors, and shows Rep. Ilhan Omar played a visible role advocating extensions and ...
The claim asks which U.S. senators are up for re-election in 2026 whose terms end January 3, 2027 — in other words, which members of are on the 2026 ballot. Multiple analyses referenced here confirm t...
Several right-wing figures and influencers faced public backlash for their reactions to the June assassination of Minnesota House leader Melissa Hortman and her husband, most prominently Collin Rugg (...
The 2026 U.S. Senate cycle will feature , with control of the chamber at stake; sources differ slightly on the exact count but consistently identify Florida and Ohio as special races to fill the remai...
Ilhan Omar’s 2024 financial disclosure lists her household net worth in a very wide band — between $6 million and $30 million — almost entirely because of her husband’s reported stakes in two business...
Available reporting shows the allegation that Vance Boelter told authorities Gov. Tim Walz instructed him to “kill Democratic lawmakers” comes from a handwritten letter Boelter left for the FBI/Nation...
Al Franken resigned effective January 2, 2018; Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton appointed Democrat Tina Smith to fill the seat on January 3, 2018, and she served until winning a special election in Nove...
Available sources list places to find Tina Smith’s 2022 roll-call behavior (Congressional Record / Congress.gov) and third‑party compilations (Ballotpedia, Vote Smart, GovTrack, BillTrack50) but do no...
As of the latest compiled reporting, at least seven U.S. senators have announced they will not seek reelection in 2026 — four Democrats and three Republicans — creating open seats in states including ...
Multiple reputable reports show several high-profile Senate leaders have announced they will leave the Senate before or by the 2026 election cycle, including top-tier figures such as Senator Mitch McC...
President Biden did not issue a clear, direct public call in the provided reporting to pass a in 2025; instead, Democratic leaders publicly resisted accepting a Republican-led clean CR unless they sec...
Twenty U.S. senators publicly pledged to forgo or donate pay during the 2018–2019 federal government shutdown, part of a broader group of 102 members of Congress who announced they would decline or re...