Last night, as President Trump spoke, the votes were being tallied in a big Republican win in a special election in Minnesota.

Granted, it wasn’t anything earth-shattering. Jason Rarick, a Republican member of the state House, picked up a state Senate seat in the 11th district (the northeastern part of the state) that had been represented by Democrats for two generations — which is to say that Democrats from two generations of the Lourey family had held the seat since 1996. Stu Lourey, the scion of this clan, proved unable to keep it in Democratic hands after his dad was tapped to serve in the administration of Democratic Gov. Tim Walz.