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Races · house · 2026 · Minnesota
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Jake Johnson vs Pete Stauber

Safe RR +16.7 forecast · 3 months 27 days to election· 0 polls · 2 marketsMarkets 11h agoRating today
Live model · win probabilityupdated 11h ago · poliagg-v34
9% Johnson (D)
91% Stauber (R)
R+15R+5TIEDD+5D+15
Predicted final margin R +16.7 · 80% CI R+32.8 → R+0.6 · 3 months 27 days to election
Momentum
insufficient data
Tipping-point P
3.6%
Decisive for chamber control
Market · D-side
D 25¢
Cross-platform consensus
News articles · 30d
14
articles · new
Where this race stands
Verified

Lean R · model 91% R

No recent polls or markets for this race. PVI baseline (R+7) suggests Lean R.

The poliagg-v34 ensemble forecasts R+16.7 with an 80% CI ranging from R+32.8 (10th pctile) to R+0.6 (90th pctile), giving R a 91% chance of winning.

Tipping-point probability: 3.6% of simulations see this race as decisive for chamber control.

CITATIONS · lean-r · low-tipping
Forecast · poliagg-v34
Predicted final margin
R +16.7
80% CI: R +32.8R +0.6 · win prob 9%
R+45R+23TIEDD+23D+45
Quality · inputs
Data quality · medium
Polls used0
Days to election118
Residual σ12.56pt
Generated7/7/2026
Compare with other models3 models
qgbt-v1GBT (qgbt)
R +19.3
80% CI R +23.4 → R +13.0
CV MAE 8.51
bayes-v1Bayes / Kalman
R +6.5
80% CI R +9.8 → R +3.2
CV MAE 2.58
consensusMarket-implied
R +6.1
no interval
market-implied

Prediction markets

Consensus · D 25¢1 platformupdated 11h ago
Cross-platform price · history
15¢20¢25¢30¢35¢54 DAYS · D YES PRICENOWMay 14Jul 7
Per-platform · current
PlatformD YESR YES7d ΔVolvs cons
Polymarket
Will the Democratic Party win the MN-08 House seat?
25¢74¢-1¢+0

Endorsements · 3 total

Source · Wikipedia · 2 candidates with no endorsements yet
Stauber · 100%3
RPete Stauber3 endorsers
Most notable · Donald Trump · 45th and 47th president of the United States (2017–2021, 2025–present)
Organizations2
Elected officials1
Federal 1State 0Local 0
DJake Johnson0 endorsers
no endorsers yet
No endorsements found yet. Endorsements come from the candidate's Wikipedia article (when one exists) and update with the daily scrape.
IOliver Morlan0 endorsers
no endorsers yet
No endorsements found yet. Endorsements come from the candidate's Wikipedia article (when one exists) and update with the daily scrape.

Money raised · own committees

FEC Schedule E (independent expenditures) + candidate-committee totals · last filing 2026-02-03
Pete StauberH8MN08043 ↗
Receipts
$1.5M
Disburse
$991.4K
Cash on hand
$1.0M
Debts
$0
No industry data.
No contributor data.

Outside spending · independent expenditures

FEC Schedule E (independent expenditures) + candidate-committee totals · 24/48-hr IE reports
IE total
$1.1K
D side
$1.1K · 100%
R side
$0 · 0%
Top spender
MINNESOTA DEMOCRATI…
For / against split
Against Stauber $1.1K
SpenderSideAmountShareTarget
MINNESOTA DEMOCRATIC-FARMER-LABOR PARTYD$1.1K100%against Pete Stauber

Editorial ratings · 4 raters

Cook · Sabato · Inside Elections · 538 · DDHQ et al.
Safe R4
Cook Political Report
Safe R
Jun 17
Inside Elections
Safe R
Jun 24
Sabato's Crystal Ball
Safe R
Jun 8
Split Ticket
Safe R
Jun 24

Demographic crosstabs

age · education · race · gender
No demographic crosstabs published for this race yet. Most pollsters release only topline numbers; subgroup breakdowns (age, education, race, gender) appear here when a pollster publishes them.

In the news

14 shown · last 30d · Google News
News volume · 30d
14 articles · building history
Net favorability
+0.21
Coverage lean (D−R) · shift +0.34 wk
Coverage tilt
D 21%
Neutral 79%
21% of outlets rated · by editorial lean
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Rating timeline
May 5, 2026Safe Rmodel
May 3, 2026Tilt Dmodel
Verification trail
Polls verified0 / 0deterministic
Polls flaggednone
Markets ingested1 platformupdated 11h ago
FEC filingssyncedcommittee + IE · 2026-02-03
Endorsements5 totalWikipedia scrape
News coverage14 / 30dGoogle News
Method · bounds + percentage totals + date-order checks