Human Rights Campaign PAC Endorses Peggy Flanagan, Steadfast Defender of LGBTQ+ People, for U.S. Senate

MINNEAPOLIS — Today the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) PAC, the nation’s largest LGBTQ+ civil rights organization, announced it has endorsed Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan in Minnesota’s U.S. Senate race. Flanagan’s success in the November general election against her opponent is essential to securing a pro-equality majority in the Senate, where she will combat the discriminatory policies and gross government overreach of the Trump administration.

Lt. Gov. Flanagan previously earned the HRC PAC’s endorsement during her 2022 re-election campaign. During their tenure, the Walz-Flanagan administration signed key, targeted pro-LGBTQ+ legislation and executive actions including banning the discredited practice commonly known as “conversion therapy.” Flanagan has pledged to support the Equality Act, landmark LGBTQ+ nondiscrimination legislation, in the U.S. Senate. 

Flanagan is facing off against anti-LGBTQ+ former sportscaster and MAGA Republican Michele Tafoya who, on the campaign trail, has: 

• Claimed that WNBA players should submit themselves to invasive sex-testing to ‘prove’ their womanhood;
• Minimized the pain American consumers feel over gas prices, calling for people hurt at the pump to ‘go to Starbucks-less’ in response to price hikes connected with Trump’s Iran war; 
• Said she would only support anti-abortion judges, calling Minnesota’s current laws “barbaric”
• Opposes the Affordable Care Act, the landmark Obama-era law which has brought healthcare to nearly 50 million Americans - and almost 140,000 Minnesotans - who would not otherwise have it.

HRC’s Commitment to Minnesota

Equality Voters — including more than 1.5 million in Minnesota — are a powerful and diverse voting bloc united by support for LGBTQ+ equality. Equality Voters are younger, more racially diverse, and more female than the general electorate, and they recognize and trust the HRC brand. And according to new HRC Foundation data, LGBTQ+ adults make up over 12 percent of Minnesota’s population. HRC PAC has made significant investments in Minnesota over the years, working to mobilize those Equality Voters and elect pro-equality champions up and down the ballot.