Midwest
Minnesota Dems disavow endorsement of candidate accused of stalking opponent
- The Minnesota Democratic Party has disavowed a local chapter’s endorsement of Judd Hoff, a state House candidate with a troubling criminal past.
- Hoff is also accused of digging through his Republican opponent’s garbage and moving into a house across the street from hers.
- Republican state Rep. Josh Heintzeman also noted Hoff’s harassment of Rep. Mary Franson has gone as far as “publishing her address and contact information, filming her at her private residence, and relentlessly sending rude and threatening messages online.”
Minnesota Democrats have disavowed a local party chapter’s endorsement of a state House candidate who has a violent criminal history and is accused of stalking and harassing the Republican lawmaker he is challenging.
Judd Hoff was endorsed this month by Democrats in District 12 to run for a central Minnesota seat that has been represented by Republican Rep. Mary Franson of Alexandria since 2011. Republicans were quick Monday to demand that Democrats rescind their backing of Hoff.
“Democrats must withdraw their endorsement of this repeat criminal,” GOP Rep. Josh Heintzeman, of Nisswa, said in a statement. “For years he has harassed and stalked Rep. Franson by digging through her trash, publishing her address and contact information, filming her at her private residence, and relentlessly sending rude and threatening messages online.”
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Franson’s district is heavily Republican and is not considered competitive. She won reelection in 2022 with nearly 70% of the vote. She tweeted that she considered Hoff to be dangerous and asked, “Why is this the guy they want as a candidate?”
Ken Martin, chairman of Minnesota’s Democratic Party, said in statement later Monday that the party “strongly disavows this endorsement,” and he asked the local party unit to withdraw its endorsement immediately. He said the state party won’t spend any of its resources to support Hoff.
The Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul is photographed. (Google Earth)
“We all have a responsibility, regardless of party or ideology, to reject violence in our politics — we can and should expect better from candidates for elected office,” the Democratic leader said.
Hoff’s criminal history includes a felony second-degree assault conviction for wielding a 23-inch machete during an argument in 2020. He was sentenced to 13 months and spent about eight months in jail. Court records show the judge gave him a break over the prosecution’s objections because the victim was the initial aggressor.
In a video posted to YouTube, first surfaced by former GOP operative Michael Brodkorb, Hoff admitted to digging through Franson’s garbage and acknowledged moving into a home across the street from Franson.
The chair of the district and county party committee, Bonnie Bina, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Hoff was the only candidate who came forward to run for the seat. She acknowledged that it’s hard to recruit Democratic candidates to take on incumbents in such a heavily Republican area.
Bina also acknowledged that delegates knew that Hoff had a criminal record and had spent time in prison. But she said he told them he was past that and had become active in the community. She declined to comment on whether they were aware of the allegations that he harassed Franson.
The local party committee will decide its next steps after getting more information from the state party office and reviewing party rules, she said, adding that she didn’t know how long that would take.
Hoff did not immediately respond to messages from The Associated Press seeking comment.
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South Dakota
SD Lottery Powerball, Lucky For Life winning numbers for Dec. 24, 2025
The South Dakota Lottery offers multiple draw games for those aiming to win big. Here’s a look at Dec. 24, 2025, results for each game:
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04-25-31-52-59, Powerball: 19, Power Play: 2
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Winning Lucky For Life numbers from Dec. 24 drawing
03-05-07-17-34, Lucky Ball: 09
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Winning Lotto America numbers from Dec. 24 drawing
01-18-27-41-49, Star Ball: 09, ASB: 02
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01-02-03-07-32
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Wisconsin
The Athletic predicts who will start for the Badgers at QB in 2026
The Wisconsin Badgers have been seeing quite a few departures into the transfer portal so far, as they head into what will be the most crucial offseason of head coach Luke Fickell’s career.
At the top of the agenda is a quarterback, who will likely start a domino effect on the rest of the additions in the transfer portal. Wisconsin is very likely to take at least one signal-caller in the transfer portal class, and its commitment to an increased financial investment will be tested.
The Badgers need a serious upgrade at the position after sub-standard play derailed the offense for two straight years. But, who will actually want to come to Wisconsin, which has been one of the worst Power 4 offenses under Luke Fickell?
In a recent article, The Athletic’s Manny Navarro predicted the starting quarterback for every Power 4 program in 2026, making transfer portal predictions for all the quarterbacks heading elsewhere.
Who he has starting at Wisconsin is a bit of a surprise: redshirt freshman Carter Smith.
“Smith started the last three games of the season for the Badgers, who went 4-8 in Year 3 under Luke Fickell,” Navarro wrote. “It makes sense that Wisconsin would want an experienced transfer on the roster. But does anyone worth a damn really want to go to Madison right now?”
For what it’s worth, I don’t envision Smith being the team’s starter in 2026, although Wisconsin does want him back to continue furthering his development. But, it does beg the question if the Badgers can actually attract a top transfer in the market.
While Wisconsin says they’ll have more money, there are several other top programs with elite resources that will also need a quarterback. And their offensive infrastructures are much better than what the Badgers have. It would be a disappointment if Wisconsin missed out on a top quarterback, but there is also a reality where that happens because of their issues the last few years.
Midwest
Dem Senate candidate faces backlash after violent fantasy against conservative SCOTUS justices goes viral
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A Michigan Democratic Senate candidate is facing backlash after a clip went viral Thursday revealing what she would do if she saw Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh out in public.
Mallory McMorrow, who is running in the crowded Democratic Senate primary, ignited social media backlash from conservatives after her comments to supporters last month surfaced. McMorrow was asked by a female attendee at a Huron Valley Indivisible event on Nov. 12 whether there “was any sense in dealing with the Supreme Court,” adding that she “blame[s] them for a lot.”
“So, I’m a Notre Dame grad, and Amy Coney Barrett coming out of my university makes me furious. Just on a personal level. I talked to somebody yesterday who said they saw her and Brett Kavanaugh at a tailgate last weekend,” McMorrow said last month. “I would not have been able to control myself. That would be bad. There would be beers thrown in peoples’ faces.”
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Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow speaking on the first day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, on August 19, 2024. (Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
Conservatives immediately slammed McMorrow on social media for her violent rhetoric, including the National Republican Senatorial Committee, who said, “She needs help.”
“It’s impossible for a Democrat candidate to not be a crazed and violent radical,” Club for Growth President David McIntosh wrote on X.
“Sounds as if she shouldn’t be in the Senate, then,” Charles Cooke, a senior editor at National Review, wrote on X.
“I really don’t understand political figures who openly brag about being overcome by emotions such as disgust as though this were an asset,” Wall Street Journal columnist Kyle Smith wrote on X.
“Pattern of Democrat politicians up to and including Chuck Schumer openly encouraging violence against Supreme Court justices,” The Federalist’s editor-in-chief Molly Hemmingway wrote on X.
“Sounds like she should seek professional help and consider therapy instead of a Senate run,” conservative writer A.G Hamilton wrote on X.
“Democrats are now openly threatening Supreme Court justices with violence,” GOP operative Steve Guest wrote on X.
Fox News Digital reached out multiple times to the McMorrow campaign about the clip but did not receive a response.
A Democratic Senate candidate said in a video that surfaced on Thursday that “there would be beers thrown in peoples’ faces” if she were to see conservative Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett (left) and Brett Kavanaugh (right) in public. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker-Pool/Getty Images | Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images | Photo by Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Several people online likened the comments to those said by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. in 2020 when he targeted Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch, both conservative Supreme Court justices, and said, “You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You will not know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions” during an abortion rights rally.
Schumer would later walk back the quote, saying, “I should not have used the words I used yesterday. They did not come out the way I intended to.”
This isn’t the first time that McMorrow has received scrutiny this year. Back in October, McMorrow was a headliner at the “John D. Dingell Unity Dinner,” which featured a sign with coded language threatening President Donald Trump and equating his supporters with Nazis.
The sign, displayed by local Democrats, said “MAGA=NAZI” and “86 47.” The number “86” originated in restaurants to mean “cancel” or “throw out,” but in underworld slang it is frequently used as a call sign for murdering someone. The number “47” is commonly interpreted as denoting the 47th president of the United States, Trump.
“This sign was wrong. Especially now, we each have a responsibility to choose our words and signs carefully, and avoid anything that may be interpreted as a call to violence,” Andrew Mamo, a spokesman for McMorrow for Michigan, told Fox News Digital at the time.
She has also come under scrutiny for fundraising with far-left radicals, including a blogger who mocked the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
The month-old clip of McMorrow dropped as news spread that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had been verbally harassed in public at a luxury Washington, D.C., restaurant and wine bar on Wednesday night by Code Pink, a radical left-wing group.
DC DINNER TURNS CHAOTIC AS CODEPINK ACTIVISTS CORNER TREASURY SECRETARY SCOTT BESSENT: ‘BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS’
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was confronted by CODEPINK protesters while eating dinner Wednesday at a Washington, D.C., restaurant. (Getty Images; CODEPINK)
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“We want to make an announcement! We have a special guest here, and we want to make a toast for the Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent!” DiNucci said after striking her glass to get everyone’s attention. “So let’s give it up for the man who is eating in peace as people starve across the world based on his sanctions, which are economic warfare.”
“He oversees the deaths of 600,000 people due to sanctions annually,” she added. “How many people are going to die because of the blood that’s on your hands?”
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