“If a writer pitched Rep. Ilhan Omar’s life story to a Hollywood producer as a movie, it would likely be rejected as simply too impossible to believe,” Dean Obeidallah wrote recently at Salon.
House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D., S.C.) said Friday that Sen. Amy Klobuchar's (D., Minn.) chances of being Joe Biden's 2020 running mate had been damaged by the violent unrest in Minnesota this week. 
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D.) told Minneapolis residents protesting the death of George Floyd to react more kindly to the National Guard than to local police, saying Friday the former group was not the one they "associate with unfair conduct." 
Democratic Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has refused to grant a conservative journalist access to the state's daily coronavirus press briefings. Scott Johnson, co-founder of the award-winning website Power Line, has covered the government's response to the pandemic in a daily series titled, "Coronavirus in One State." The posts regularly receive hundreds of comments from Minnesota residents, the PowerLine site shows. 
A top Minnesota Democrat criticized Rep. Ilhan Omar for voting "present" on a House resolution acknowledging the reality of the Armenian genocide. 
Trump supporter Dave Carlson was giving an interview with Vice when a protester spat in his face outside a Minneapolis Trump rally Thursday. 
President Donald Trump's campaign is threatening a lawsuit after Minneapolis city leaders charged it $530,000 for security at an event scheduled for Thursday—26 times the amount it billed former president Barack Obama for a 2009 rally. 
The progressive wing of Democratic presidential contenders is staking out a hardline position on a pipeline replacement project in Minnesota, a position that is further left than many local Democrats in the state and could pinch more centrist Democrats on the national level. Media outlets scrambled to prove false the accusation that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) married her brother after President Donald Trump mentioned it, but none have been able to definitively reach an answer, largely due to Omar's unwillingness to provide information. 
The Tonight Show told the state it spent more than $3 million to air in Minnesota, including a $162,000 paycheck for host Jimmy Fallon. Records obtained by Minnesota Public Radio via public records request indicate the show also pocketed $266,834.50 through a Minnesota government rebate program amid questionable eligibility. 