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MAGA Candidate’s ‘Tone Deaf’ Starbucks Comments Under Fire

thedailybeast.com · 3h · first reportShare

Michele Tafoya, an NFL sideline reporter turned MAGA candidate, is under renewed scrutiny over her “tone-deaf” Starbucks talking points after she won her primary election. Tafoya, 61, the Republican nominee for Senate in Minnesota, declared in March that Americans feeling the economic strain under President Donald Trump’s war in Iran, which has caused gas and oil prices to skyrocket, should simply go to Starbucks less. “Maybe you take one less trip to Starbucks, and so that gas goes a little further, until this thing is over and these gas prices come back down again,” Tafoya suggested. “Let’s just try to be patriots about this. Whether you agree with it or not, we’re there, and we’ve got to support our men and women in uniform. That’s a big one.” Read more at The Daily Beast.