“We got here in part because too many Democrats have been weak,” Flanagan said to cheers from the event’s 1,200 delegates.

“How we want to run this race is by building up that room, building up this party. How we win matters.”

“Things have changed here,” she said. “Minnesota was rocked by Operation Metro Surge that she played a hand in by her Laken Riley vote and by praising ICE. That’s for real.”

“It’s gonna get ugly,” Flanagan told HuffPost. “It’s gonna get gross.”

“That is one of the biggest differences between the two of us.”

We can’t just be the lesser of two evils, and we will never ever win by being a pale shadow of our opponents.

Minnesotans have always proved that organized people can beat organized money.

Taxpayer dollars were stolen from programs meant to help families during a crisis, and that is unacceptable.