Michele Tafoya
Running for U.S. Senate — 2026 election
Raised · 2026 cycle
$2.0M
Source: FEC
As of July 2026, Michele Tafoya is a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Minnesota in the 2026 election. Federal Election Commission filings report $2,041,940 in total receipts for the 2026 cycle. All figures on this page are drawn from primary sources — FEC filings, congressional records, and STOCK Act disclosures — and link back to them.
Data last updated July 2026.
Michele Tafoya is a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate seat in Minnesota being vacated by retiring Senator Tina Smith, with the general election set for November 3, 2026. She spent nearly three decades as a sports broadcaster, working for CBS Sports, ESPN/ABC, and NBC Sports, where she served as a sideline reporter for NBC Sunday Night Football from 2011 to 2022 and won multiple Sports Emmy Awards. Tafoya holds a Bachelor of Arts in mass communications from UC Berkeley and an MBA from USC, and announced her Senate candidacy on January 21, 2026. Her principal campaign committee, Tafoya for Senate, reported total receipts of $2,041,939.86 as of the FEC's most recent filing.
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40% of donations are small-dollar contributions under $200 — a heavily grassroots-funded campaign.
$2.0M
Total raised
$187K
Total spent
$1.9M
Cash on hand
Where the money comes from
Reflects money received by the campaign committee itself. “Loans and other receipts” covers candidate or bank loans, offsets to operating expenditures, interest and other non-contribution receipts reported to the FEC. Independent expenditures by super PACs are not included.
Totals through 2026-03-31 · Source: FEC