Democrats intent on keeping Minnesota trifecta by adding state Senate seat as target

The Democratic Party‘s state legislature campaign wing announced Wednesday that it’s adding a special election for a Minnesota state Senate seat to its target list as it aims to maintain the state’s Democratic trifecta.

The Minnesota state Senate seat for the state’s 45th District will be contested in November after former Democratic state Sen. Kelly Morrison resigned from the seat to focus on her bid to replace Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) in Congress. The race for Morrison’s former seat will be the only state Senate seat contested this year, but it will decide control of the chamber — which Democrats flipped in 2022.